`` I do n't know about that , '' said Marilla , with a brief sigh . `` Well , anyway , when I am grown up , '' said Anne decidedly , `` I 'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too , and I 'll never laugh when they use big words . I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one 's feelings . After tea Diana and I made taffy . The taffy was n't very good , I suppose because neither Diana nor I had ever made any before . Diana left me to stir it while she buttered the plates and I forgot and let it burn ; and then when we set it out on the platform to cool the cat walked over one plate and that had to be thrown away . But the making of it was splendid fun . Then when I came home Mrs. Barry asked me to come over as often as I could and Diana stood at the window and threw kisses to me all the way down to Lover 's Lane . I assure you , Marilla , that I feel like praying tonight and I 'm going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honor of the occasion . '' CHAPTER XIX . A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession `` MARILLA , can I go over to see Diana just for a minute ? '' asked Anne , running breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening . `` I do n't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for , '' said Marilla shortly . `` You and Diana walked home from school together and then stood down there in the snow for half an hour more , your tongues going the whole blessed time , clickety-clack . So I do n't think you 're very badly off to see her again . '' `` But she wants to see me , '' pleaded Anne . `` She has something very important to tell me . '' `` How do you know she has ? '' `` Because she just signaled to me from her window . We have arranged a way to signal with our candles and cardboard .
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