`` Well , you know she only bought it , so it is n't the same as if it was an heirloom , '' said Diana , trying to console . The guests went away soon after , feeling that it was the most tactful thing to do , and Anne and Diana washed the dishes , talking less than they had ever been known to do before . Then Diana went home with a headache and Anne went with another to the east gable , where she stayed until Marilla came home from the post office at sunset , with a letter from Priscilla , written the day before . Mrs. Morgan had sprained her ankle so severely that she could not leave her room . `` And oh , Anne dear , '' wrote Priscilla , `` I 'm so sorry , but I 'm afraid we wo n't get up to Green Gables at all now , for by the time Aunty 's ankle is well she will have to go back to Toronto . She has to be there by a certain date . '' `` Well , '' sighed Anne , laying the letter down on the red sandstone step of the back porch , where she was sitting , while the twilight rained down out of a dappled sky , `` I always thought it was too good to be true that Mrs. Morgan should really come . But there ... that speech sounds as pessimistic as Miss Eliza Andrews and I 'm ashamed of making it . After all , it was NOT too good to be true ... things just as good and far better are coming true for me all the time . And I suppose the events of today have a funny side too . Perhaps when Diana and I are old and gray we shall be able to laugh over them . But I feel that I ca n't expect to do it before then , for it has truly been a bitter disappointment . '' `` You 'll probably have a good many more and worse disappointments than that before you get through life , '' said Marilla , who honestly thought she was making a comforting speech . `` It seems to me , Anne , that you are never going to outgrow your fashion of setting your heart so on things and then crashing down into despair because you do n't get them . '' `` I know I 'm too much inclined that , way '' agreed Anne ruefully . `` When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation ; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud . But really , Marilla , the flying part IS glorious as long as it lasts ... it 's like soaring through a sunset . I think it almost pays for the thud . '' `` Well , maybe it does , '' admitted Marilla . `` I 'd rather walk calmly along and do without both flying and thud .
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