`` I 'll be as secret as the dead , '' assured Anne . `` But oh , Marilla , will you let me make a cake for the occasion ? I 'd love to do something for Mrs. Allan , and you know I can make a pretty good cake by this time . '' `` You can make a layer cake , '' promised Marilla . Monday and Tuesday great preparations went on at Green Gables . Having the minister and his wife to tea was a serious and important undertaking , and Marilla was determined not to be eclipsed by any of the Avonlea housekeepers . Anne was wild with excitement and delight . She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the twilight , as they sat on the big red stones by the Dryad 's Bubble and made rainbows in the water with little twigs dipped in fir balsam . `` Everything is ready , Diana , except my cake which I 'm to make in the morning , and the baking-powder biscuits which Marilla will make just before teatime . I assure you , Diana , that Marilla and I have had a busy two days of it . It 's such a responsibility having a minister 's family to tea . I never went through such an experience before . You should just see our pantry . It 's a sight to behold . We 're going to have jellied chicken and cold tongue . We 're to have two kinds of jelly , red and yellow , and whipped cream and lemon pie , and cherry pie , and three kinds of cookies , and fruit cake , and Marilla 's famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers , and pound cake and layer cake , and biscuits as aforesaid ; and new bread and old both , in case the minister is dyspeptic and ca n't eat new . Mrs. Lynde says ministers are dyspeptic , but I do n't think Mr. Allan has been a minister long enough for it to have had a bad effect on him . I just grow cold when I think of my layer cake . Oh , Diana , what if it should n't be good ! I dreamed last night that I was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head . ''
`` It 'll be good , all right , '' assured Diana , who was a very comfortable sort XXXXX friend .
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