And you can cut some fruit cake and have some of the cookies and snaps . '' `` I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea , '' said Anne , shutting her eyes ecstatically . `` And asking Diana if she takes sugar ! I know she does n't but of course I 'll ask her just as if I did n't know . And then pressing her to take another piece of fruit cake and another helping of preserves . Oh , Marilla , it 's a wonderful sensation just to think of it . Can I take her into the spare room to lay off her hat when she comes ? And then into the parlor to sit ? '' `` No . The sitting room will do for you and your company . But there 's a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night . It 's on the second shelf of the sitting-room closet and you and Diana can have it if you like , and a cooky to eat with it along in the afternoon , for I daresay Matthew 'll be late coming in to tea since he 's hauling potatoes to the vessel . '' Anne flew down to the hollow , past the Dryad 's Bubble and up the spruce path to Orchard Slope , to ask Diana to tea . As a result just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody , Diana came over , dressed in HER second-best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea . At other times she was wont to run into the kitchen without knocking ; but now she knocked primly at the front door . And when Anne , dressed in her second best , as primly opened it , both little girls shook hands as gravely as if they had never met before . This unnatural solemnity lasted until after Diana had been taken to the east gable to lay off her hat and then had sat for ten minutes in the sitting room , toes in position . `` How is your mother ? '' inquired Anne politely , just as if she had not seen Mrs. Barry picking apples that morning in excellent health and spirits . `` She is very well , thank you .
I suppose Mr. Cuthbert is hauling potatoes XXXXX the LILY SANDS this afternoon , is he ? ''
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