Then I thought of my lovely puffed sleeves and took courage . I knew that I must live up to those sleeves , Diana . So I started in , and my voice seemed to be coming from ever so far away . I just felt like a parrot . It 's providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the garret , or I 'd never have been able to get through . Did I groan all right ? '' `` Yes , indeed , you groaned lovely , '' assured Diana . `` I saw old Mrs. Sloane wiping away tears when I sat down . It was splendid to think I had touched somebody 's heart . It 's so romantic to take part in a concert , is n't it ? Oh , it 's been a very memorable occasion indeed . '' `` Was n't the boys ' dialogue fine ? '' said Diana . `` Gilbert Blythe was just splendid . Anne , I do think it 's awful mean the way you treat Gil . Wait till I tell you . When you ran off the platform after the fairy dialogue one of your roses fell out of your hair . I saw Gil pick it up and put it in his breast pocket . There now . You 're so romantic that I 'm sure you ought to be pleased at that . ''
`` It 's nothing XXXXX me what that person does , '' said Anne loftily .
So after at from in like of that till to