No answer from Anne save more tears and stormier sobs ! `` Anne Shirley , when I ask you a question I want to be answered . Sit right up this very minute and tell me what you are crying about . '' Anne sat up , tragedy personified . `` Mrs. Lynde was up to see Mrs. Barry today and Mrs. Barry was in an awful state , '' she wailed . `` She says that I set Diana DRUNK Saturday and sent her home in a disgraceful condition . And she says I must be a thoroughly bad , wicked little girl and she 's never , never going to let Diana play with me again . Oh , Marilla , I 'm just overcome with woe . '' Marilla stared in blank amazement . `` Set Diana drunk ! '' she said when she found her voice . `` Anne are you or Mrs. Barry crazy ? What on earth did you give her ? '' `` Not a thing but raspberry cordial , '' sobbed Anne . `` I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk , Marilla -- not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did . Oh , it sounds so -- so -- like Mrs. Thomas 's husband ! But I did n't mean to set her drunk . '' `` Drunk fiddlesticks ! '' said Marilla , marching to the sitting room pantry . There on the shelf was a bottle which she at once recognized as one containing some of her three-year-old homemade currant wine for which she was celebrated in Avonlea , although certain of the stricter sort , Mrs. Barry among them , disapproved strongly of it .
And at the same time Marilla recollected that she had put the bottle XXXXX raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the pantry as she had told Anne .
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