`` Oh Marilla , I 'm the happiest girl on Prince Edward Island this very moment . I assure you I 'll say my prayers with a right good-will tonight . Diana and I are going to build a playhouse in Mr. William Bell 's birch grove tomorrow . Can I have those broken pieces of china that are out in the woodshed ? Diana 's birthday is in February and mine is in March . Do n't you think that is a very strange coincidence ? Diana is going to lend me a book to read . She says it 's perfectly splendid and tremendously exciting . She 's going to show me a place back in the woods where rice lilies grow . Do n't you think Diana has got very soulful eyes ? I wish I had soulful eyes . Diana is going to teach me to sing a song called ` Nelly in the Hazel Dell . ' She 's going to give me a picture to put up in my room ; it 's a perfectly beautiful picture , she says -- a lovely lady in a pale blue silk dress . A sewing-machine agent gave it to her . I wish I had something to give Diana . I 'm an inch taller than Diana , but she is ever so much fatter ; she says she 'd like to be thin because it 's so much more graceful , but I 'm afraid she only said it to soothe my feelings . We 're going to the shore some day to gather shells . We have agreed to call the spring down by the log bridge the Dryad 's Bubble . Is n't that a perfectly elegant name ? I read a story once about a spring called that .
A dryad is sort XXXXX a grown-up fairy , I think . ''
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