Davy , blissfully dirty , was making mud pies in the barnyard . `` I told him he might , '' said Marilla wearily . `` I thought it would keep him out of worse mischief . He can only get dirty at that . We 'll have our teas over before we call him to his . Dora can have hers with us , but I would never dare to let Davy sit down at the table with all the Aids here . '' When Anne went to call the Aids to tea she found that Dora was not in the parlor . Mrs. Jasper Bell said Davy had come to the front door and called her out . A hasty consultation with Marilla in the pantry resulted in a decision to let both children have their teas together later on . Tea was half over when the dining room was invaded by a forlorn figure . Marilla and Anne stared in dismay , the Aids in amazement . Could that be Dora ... that sobbing nondescript in a drenched , dripping dress and hair from which the water was streaming on Marilla 's new coin-spot rug ? `` Dora , what has happened to you ? '' cried Anne , with a guilty glance at Mrs. Jasper Bell , whose family was said to be the only one in the world in which accidents never occurred . `` Davy made me walk the pigpen fence , '' wailed Dora . `` I did n't want to but he called me a fraid-cat . And I fell off into the pigpen and my dress got all dirty and the pig runned right over me . My dress was just awful but Davy said if I 'd stand under the pump he 'd wash it clean , and I did and he pumped water all over me but my dress ai n't a bit cleaner and my pretty sash and shoes is all spoiled . '' Anne did the honors of the table alone for the rest of the meal while Marilla went upstairs and redressed Dora in her old clothes . Davy was caught and sent to bed without any supper .
Anne went XXXXX his room at twilight and talked to him seriously ... a method in which she had great faith , not altogether unjustified by results .
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