`` I 'm going out to put the mare in , Marilla . Have tea ready when I come back . '' `` Did Mrs. Spencer bring anybody over besides you ? '' continued Marilla when Matthew had gone out . `` She brought Lily Jones for herself . Lily is only five years old and she is very beautiful and had nut-brown hair . If I was very beautiful and had nut-brown hair would you keep me ? '' `` No . We want a boy to help Matthew on the farm . A girl would be of no use to us . Take off your hat . I 'll lay it and your bag on the hall table . '' Anne took off her hat meekly . Matthew came back presently and they sat down to supper . But Anne could not eat . In vain she nibbled at the bread and butter and pecked at the crab-apple preserve out of the little scalloped glass dish by her plate . She did not really make any headway at all . `` You 're not eating anything , '' said Marilla sharply , eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming . Anne sighed . `` I ca n't .
I 'm in the depths XXXXX despair .
If In Marilla Matthew at for of old on to