Mrs. Pendexter said little ; she merely smiled with her lovely eyes and lips , and ate chicken and fruit cake and preserves with such exquisite grace that she conveyed the impression of dining on ambrosia and honeydew . But then , as Anne said to Diana later on , anybody so divinely beautiful as Mrs. Pendexter did n't need to talk ; it was enough for her just to LOOK . After dinner they all had a walk through Lover 's Lane and Violet Vale and the Birch Path , then back through the Haunted Wood to the Dryad 's Bubble , where they sat down and talked for a delightful last half hour . Mrs. Morgan wanted to know how the Haunted Wood came by its name , and laughed until she cried when she heard the story and Anne 's dramatic account of a certain memorable walk through it at the witching hour of twilight . `` It has indeed been a feast of reason and flow of soul , has n't it ? '' said Anne , when her guests had gone and she and Diana were alone again . `` I do n't know which I enjoyed more ... listening to Mrs. Morgan or gazing at Mrs. Pendexter . I believe we had a nicer time than if we 'd known they were coming and been cumbered with much serving . You must stay to tea with me , Diana , and we 'll talk it all over . '' `` Priscilla says Mrs. Pendexter 's husband 's sister is married to an English earl ; and yet she took a second helping of the plum preserves , '' said Diana , as if the two facts were somehow incompatible . `` I daresay even the English earl himself would n't have turned up his aristocratic nose at Marilla 's plum preserves , '' said Anne proudly . Anne did not mention the misfortune which had befallen HER nose when she related the day 's history to Marilla that evening . But she took the bottle of freckle lotion and emptied it out of the window . `` I shall never try any beautifying messes again , '' she said , darkly resolute . `` They may do for careful , deliberate people ; but for anyone so hopelessly given over to making mistakes as I seem to be it 's tempting fate to meddle with them . '' XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar School opened and Anne returned to her work , with fewer theories but considerably more experience . She had several new pupils , six - and seven-year-olds just venturing , round-eyed , into a world of wonder . Among them were Davy and Dora . Davy sat with Milty Boulter , who had been going to school for a year and was therefore quite a man of the world . Dora had made a compact at Sunday School the previous Sunday to sit with Lily Sloane ; but Lily Sloane not coming the first day , she was temporarily assigned to Mirabel Cotton , who was ten years old and therefore , in Dora 's eyes , one of the `` big girls . ''
`` I think school is great fun , '' Davy told Marilla when he got home XXXXX night .
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