But at least she had made good use of them . `` Oh , Marilla , what do you think ? You know tomorrow is Diana 's birthday . Well , her mother told her she could ask me to go home with her from school and stay all night with her . And her cousins are coming over from Newbridge in a big pung sleigh to go to the Debating Club concert at the hall tomorrow night . And they are going to take Diana and me to the concert -- if you 'll let me go , that is . You will , wo n't you , Marilla ? Oh , I feel so excited . '' `` You can calm down then , because you 're not going . You 're better at home in your own bed , and as for that club concert , it 's all nonsense , and little girls should not be allowed to go out to such places at all . '' `` I 'm sure the Debating Club is a most respectable affair , '' pleaded Anne . `` I 'm not saying it is n't . But you 're not going to begin gadding about to concerts and staying out all hours of the night . Pretty doings for children . I 'm surprised at Mrs. Barry 's letting Diana go . '' `` But it 's such a very special occasion , '' mourned Anne , on the verge of tears . `` Diana has only one birthday in a year . It is n't as if birthdays were common things , Marilla . Prissy Andrews is going to recite ` Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight . ' That is such a good moral piece , Marilla , I 'm sure it would do me lots of good to hear it .
And the choir are going XXXXX sing four lovely pathetic songs that are pretty near as good as hymns .
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