`` True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed , '' said Mrs. Allan , `` and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity . I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it . '' `` Yes ... like Gertie Pye 's and Julia Bell 's . They are very intimate and go everywhere together ; but Gertie is always saying nasty things of Julia behind her back and everybody thinks she is jealous of her because she is always so pleased when anybody criticizes Julia . I think it is desecration to call that friendship . If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us , do n't you think ? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world . '' `` Friendship IS very beautiful , '' smiled Mrs. Allan , `` but some day ... '' Then she paused abruptly . In the delicate , white-browed face beside her , with its candid eyes and mobile features , there was still far more of the child than of the woman . Anne 's heart so far harbored only dreams of friendship and ambition , and Mrs. Allan did not wish to brush the bloom from her sweet unconsciousness . So she left her sentence for the future years to finish . XVI The Substance of Things Hoped For `` Anne , '' said Davy appealingly , scrambling up on the shiny , leather-covered sofa in the Green Gables kitchen , where Anne sat , reading a letter , `` Anne , I 'm AWFUL hungry . You 've no idea . '' `` I 'll get you a piece of bread and butter in a minute , '' said Anne absently . Her letter evidently contained some exciting news , for her cheeks were as pink as the roses on the big bush outside , and her eyes were as starry as only Anne 's eyes could be . `` But I ai n't bread and butter hungry , '' said Davy in a disgusted tone . `` I 'm plum cake hungry . '' `` Oh , '' laughed Anne , laying down her letter and putting her arm about Davy to give him a squeeze , `` that 's a kind of hunger that can be endured very comfortably , Davy-boy . You know it 's one of Marilla 's rules that you ca n't have anything but bread and butter between meals . '' `` Well , gim me a piece then ... please . ''
Davy had been at last taught XXXXX say `` please , '' but he generally tacked it on as an afterthought .
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