I can hardly believe I 'm not dreaming . '' `` I daresay Mrs. Morgan is a lot like other people , '' said Marilla drily , although she did feel a trifle excited herself . Mrs. Morgan was a famous woman and a visit from her was no commonplace occurrence . `` They 'll be here to dinner , then ? '' `` Yes ; and oh , Marilla , may I cook every bit of the dinner myself ? I want to feel that I can do something for the author of ` The Rosebud Garden , ' if it is only to cook a dinner for her . You wo n't mind , will you ? '' `` Goodness , I 'm not so fond of stewing over a hot fire in July that it would vex me very much to have someone else do it . You 're quite welcome to the job . '' `` Oh , thank you , '' said Anne , as if Marilla had just conferred a tremendous favor , `` I 'll make out the menu this very night . '' `` You 'd better not try to put on too much style , '' warned Marilla , a little alarmed by the high-flown sound of ` menu . ' `` You 'll likely come to grief if you do . '' `` Oh , I 'm not going to put on any ` style , ' if you mean trying to do or have things we do n't usually have on festal occasions , '' assured Anne . `` That would be affectation , and , although I know I have n't as much sense and steadiness as a girl of seventeen and a schoolteacher ought to have , I 'm not so silly as THAT . But I want to have everything as nice and dainty as possible . Davy-boy , do n't leave those peapods on the back stairs ... someone might slip on them . I 'll have a light soup to begin with ... you know I can make lovely cream-of-onion soup ... and then a couple of roast fowls . I 'll have the two white roosters . I have real affection for those roosters and they 've been pets ever since the gray hen hatched out just the two of them ... little balls of yellow down . But I know they would have to be sacrificed sometime , and surely there could n't be a worthier occasion than this .
But oh , Marilla , I can not kill them ... not even XXXXX Mrs. Morgan 's sake .
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