She hung them over a chair and sat down with a short sigh . She had had one of her headaches that afternoon , and although the pain had gone she felt weak and `` tuckered out , '' as she expressed it . Anne looked at her with eyes limpid with sympathy . `` I do truly wish I could have had the headache in your place , Marilla . I would have endured it joyfully for your sake . '' `` I guess you did your part in attending to the work and letting me rest , '' said Marilla . `` You seem to have got on fairly well and made fewer mistakes than usual . Of course it was n't exactly necessary to starch Matthew 's handkerchiefs ! And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp . But that does n't seem to be your way evidently . '' Headaches always left Marilla somewhat sarcastic . `` Oh , I 'm so sorry , '' said Anne penitently . `` I never thought about that pie from the moment I put it in the oven till now , although I felt INSTINCTIVELY that there was something missing on the dinner table . I was firmly resolved , when you left me in charge this morning , not to imagine anything , but keep my thoughts on facts . I did pretty well until I put the pie in , and then an irresistible temptation came to me to imagine I was an enchanted princess shut up in a lonely tower with a handsome knight riding to my rescue on a coal-black steed . So that is how I came to forget the pie . I did n't know I starched the handkerchiefs . All the time I was ironing I was trying to think of a name for a new island Diana and I have discovered up the brook . It 's the most ravishing spot , Marilla . There are two maple trees on it and the brook flows right around it .
At last it struck me that it would be splendid to call it Victoria Island because we found it XXXXX the Queen 's birthday .
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