Anne had come home from school the previous evening , to find Marilla away at an Aid meeting , Dora asleep on the kitchen sofa , and Davy in the sitting room closet , blissfully absorbing the contents of a jar of Marilla 's famous yellow plum preserves ... `` company jam , '' Davy called it ... which he had been forbidden to touch . He looked very guilty when Anne pounced on him and whisked him out of the closet . `` Davy Keith , do n't you know that it is very wrong of you to be eating that jam , when you were told never to meddle with anything in THAT closet ? '' `` Yes , I knew it was wrong , '' admitted Davy uncomfortably , `` but plum jam is awful nice , Anne . I just peeped in and it looked so good I thought I 'd take just a weeny taste . I stuck my finger in ... '' Anne groaned ... `` and licked it clean . And it was so much gooder than I 'd ever thought that I got a spoon and just SAILED IN . '' Anne gave him such a serious lecture on the sin of stealing plum jam that Davy became conscience stricken and promised with repentant kisses never to do it again . `` Anyhow , there 'll be plenty of jam in heaven , that 's one comfort , '' he said complacently . Anne nipped a smile in the bud . `` Perhaps there will ... if we want it , '' she said , `` But what makes you think so ? '' `` Why , it 's in the catechism , '' said Davy . `` Oh , no , there is nothing like THAT in the catechism , Davy . '' `` But I tell you there is , '' persisted Davy . `` It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday . ` Why should we love God ? ' It says , ` Because He makes preserves , and redeems us . ' Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam . '' `` I must get a drink of water , '' said Anne hastily . When she came back it cost her some time and trouble to explain to Davy that a certain comma in the said catechism question made a great deal of difference in the meaning .
`` Well , I thought it was too good to be true , '' he said XXXXX last , with a sigh of disappointed conviction .
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