`` Anne , you have talked even on for ten minutes by the clock , '' said Marilla . `` Now , just for curiosity 's sake , see if you can hold your tongue for the same length of time . '' Anne held her tongue as desired . But for the rest of the week she talked picnic and thought picnic and dreamed picnic . On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves . On Sunday Anne confided to Marilla on the way home from church that she grew actually cold all over with excitement when the minister announced the picnic from the pulpit . `` Such a thrill as went up and down my back , Marilla ! I do n't think I 'd ever really believed until then that there was honestly going to be a picnic . I could n't help fearing I 'd only imagined it . But when a minister says a thing in the pulpit you just have to believe it . '' `` You set your heart too much on things , Anne , '' said Marilla , with a sigh . `` I 'm afraid there 'll be a great many disappointments in store for you through life . '' `` Oh , Marilla , looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them , '' exclaimed Anne . `` You may n't get the things themselves ; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them . Mrs. Lynde says , ` Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed . ' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed . '' Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual . Marilla always wore her amethyst brooch to church . She would have thought it rather sacrilegious to leave it off -- as bad as forgetting her Bible or her collection dime . That amethyst brooch was Marilla 's most treasured possession .
A seafaring uncle had given it XXXXX her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla .
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