`` What did you do ? '' asked Una . `` Run like the devil , '' said Mary . Then she caught Walter 's eyes and blushed . Mary was a good deal in awe of Walter . She declared to the manse girls that his eyes made her nervous . `` I think of all the lies I 've ever told when I look into them , '' she said , `` and I wish I had n't . '' Jem was Mary 's favourite . When he took her to the attic at Ingleside and showed her the museum of curios that Captain Jim Boyd had bequeathed to him she was immensely pleased and flattered . She also won Carl 's heart entirely by her interest in his beetles and ants . It could not be denied that Mary got on rather better with the boys than with the girls . She quarrelled bitterly with Nan Blythe the second day . `` Your mother is a witch , '' she told Nan scornfully . `` Red-haired women are always witches . '' Then she and Faith fell out about the rooster . Mary said its tail was too short . Faith angrily retorted that she guessed God know what length to make a rooster 's tail . They did not `` speak '' for a day over this . Mary treated Una 's hairless , one-eyed doll with consideration ; but when Una showed her other prized treasure -- a picture of an angel carrying a baby , presumably to heaven , Mary declared that it looked too much like a ghost for her . Una crept away to her room and cried over this , but Mary hunted her out , hugged her repentantly and implored forgiveness .
No one could keep up a quarrel long with Mary -- not even Nan , who was rather prone to hold grudges and never quite forgave the insult XXXXX her mother .
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