The walls , hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry , but with a dainty apple-blossom paper , were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs. Allan . Miss Stacy 's photograph occupied the place of honor , and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under it . Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance . There was no `` mahogany furniture , '' but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books , a cushioned wicker rocker , a toilet table befrilled with white muslin , a quaint , gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top , that used to hang in the spare room , and a low white bed . Anne was dressing for a concert at the White Sands Hotel . The guests had got it up in aid of the Charlottetown hospital , and had hunted out all the available amateur talent in the surrounding districts to help it along . Bertha Sampson and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist choir had been asked to sing a duet ; Milton Clark of Newbridge was to give a violin solo ; Winnie Adella Blair of Carmody was to sing a Scotch ballad ; and Laura Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley of Avonlea were to recite . As Anne would have said at one time , it was `` an epoch in her life , '' and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it . Matthew was in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honor conferred on his Anne and Marilla was not far behind , although she would have died rather than admit it , and said she did n't think it was very proper for a lot of young folks to be gadding over to the hotel without any responsible person with them . Anne and Diana were to drive over with Jane Andrews and her brother Billy in their double-seated buggy ; and several other Avonlea girls and boys were going too . There was a party of visitors expected out from town , and after the concert a supper was to be given to the performers . `` Do you really think the organdy will be best ? '' queried Anne anxiously . `` I do n't think it 's as pretty as my blue-flowered muslin -- and it certainly is n't so fashionable . '' `` But it suits you ever so much better , '' said Diana . `` It 's so soft and frilly and clinging . The muslin is stiff , and makes you look too dressed up . But the organdy seems as if it grew on you . '' Anne sighed and yielded . Diana was beginning to have a reputation for notable taste in dressing , and her advice on such subjects was much sought after .
She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night in a dress of the lovely wild-rose pink , from which Anne was forever debarred ; but she was not XXXXX take any part in the concert , so her appearance was of minor importance .
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