Oh , it was a never-to-be-forgotten day , Marilla . I was so tired I could n't sleep at night . Miss Barry put us in the spare room , according to promise . It was an elegant room , Marilla , but somehow sleeping in a spare room is n't what I used to think it was . That 's the worst of growing up , and I 'm beginning to realize it . The things you wanted so much when you were a child do n't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them . '' Thursday the girls had a drive in the park , and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music , where a noted prima donna was to sing . To Anne the evening was a glittering vision of delight . `` Oh , Marilla , it was beyond description . I was so excited I could n't even talk , so you may know what it was like . I just sat in enraptured silence . Madame Selitsky was perfectly beautiful , and wore white satin and diamonds . But when she began to sing I never thought about anything else . Oh , I ca n't tell you how I felt . But it seemed to me that it could never be hard to be good any more . I felt like I do when I look up to the stars . Tears came into my eyes , but , oh , they were such happy tears . I was so sorry when it was all over , and I told Miss Barry I did n't see how I was ever to return to common life again . She said she thought if we went over to the restaurant across the street and had an ice cream it might help me . That sounded so prosaic ; but to my surprise I found it true .
The ice cream was delicious , Marilla , and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there eating it XXXXX eleven o'clock at night .
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