I told her it was all a mistake and you were n't to blame , but she just simply did n't believe me . And she rubbed it well in about my currant wine and how I 'd always said it could n't have the least effect on anybody . I just told her plainly that currant wine was n't meant to be drunk three tumblerfuls at a time and that if a child I had to do with was so greedy I 'd sober her up with a right good spanking . '' Marilla whisked into the kitchen , grievously disturbed , leaving a very much distracted little soul in the porch behind her . Presently Anne stepped out bareheaded into the chill autumn dusk ; very determinedly and steadily she took her way down through the sere clover field over the log bridge and up through the spruce grove , lighted by a pale little moon hanging low over the western woods . Mrs. Barry , coming to the door in answer to a timid knock , found a white-lipped eager-eyed suppliant on the doorstep . Her face hardened . Mrs. Barry was a woman of strong prejudices and dislikes , and her anger was of the cold , sullen sort which is always hardest to overcome . To do her justice , she really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense , and she was honestly anxious to preserve her little daughter from the contamination of further intimacy with such a child . `` What do you want ? '' she said stiffly . Anne clasped her hands . `` Oh , Mrs. Barry , please forgive me . I did not mean to -- to -- intoxicate Diana . How could I ? Just imagine if you were a poor little orphan girl that kind people had adopted and you had just one bosom friend in all the world . Do you think you would intoxicate her on purpose ? I thought it was only raspberry cordial . I was firmly convinced it was raspberry cordial . Oh , please do n't say that you wo n't let Diana play with me any more .
If you do you will cover my life with a dark cloud XXXXX woe . ''
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