A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession `` MARILLA , can I go over to see Diana just for a minute ? '' asked Anne , running breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening . `` I do n't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for , '' said Marilla shortly . `` You and Diana walked home from school together and then stood down there in the snow for half an hour more , your tongues going the whole blessed time , clickety-clack . So I do n't think you 're very badly off to see her again . '' `` But she wants to see me , '' pleaded Anne . `` She has something very important to tell me . '' `` How do you know she has ? '' `` Because she just signaled to me from her window . We have arranged a way to signal with our candles and cardboard . We set the candle on the window sill and make flashes by passing the cardboard back and forth . So many flashes mean a certain thing . It was my idea , Marilla . '' `` I 'll warrant you it was , '' said Marilla emphatically . `` And the next thing you 'll be setting fire to the curtains with your signaling nonsense . '' `` Oh , we 're very careful , Marilla . And it 's so interesting . Two flashes mean , ` Are you there ? ' Three mean ` yes ' and four ` no . ' Five mean , ` Come over as soon as possible , because I have something important to reveal . '
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