I do hope you wo n't be offended because I ca n't eat . Everything is extremely nice , but still I can not eat . '' `` I guess she 's tired , '' said Matthew , who had n't spoken since his return from the barn . `` Best put her to bed , Marilla . '' Marilla had been wondering where Anne should be put to bed . She had prepared a couch in the kitchen chamber for the desired and expected boy . But , although it was neat and clean , it did not seem quite the thing to put a girl there somehow . But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif , so there remained only the east gable room . Marilla lighted a candle and told Anne to follow her , which Anne spiritlessly did , taking her hat and carpet-bag from the hall table as she passed . The hall was fearsomely clean ; the little gable chamber in which she presently found herself seemed still cleaner . Marilla set the candle on a three-legged , three-cornered table and turned down the bedclothes . `` I suppose you have a nightgown ? '' she questioned . Anne nodded . `` Yes , I have two . The matron of the asylum made them for me . They 're fearfully skimpy . There is never enough to go around in an asylum , so things are always skimpy -- at least in a poor asylum like ours . I hate skimpy night-dresses . But one can dream just as well in them as in lovely trailing ones , with frills around the neck , that 's one consolation . ''
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