There now , never mind talking till you 've had your dinner . I can tell by the look of you that you 're just full up with speeches , but they 'll keep . '' Marilla had something to tell Anne , but she did not tell it just then for she knew if she did Anne 's consequent excitement would lift her clear out of the region of such material matters as appetite or dinner . Not until Anne had finished her saucer of blue plums did Marilla say : `` Mrs. Barry was here this afternoon , Anne . She wanted to see you , but I would n't wake you up . She says you saved Minnie May 's life , and she is very sorry she acted as she did in that affair of the currant wine . She says she knows now you did n't mean to set Diana drunk , and she hopes you 'll forgive her and be good friends with Diana again . You 're to go over this evening if you like for Diana ca n't stir outside the door on account of a bad cold she caught last night . Now , Anne Shirley , for pity 's sake do n't fly up into the air . '' The warning seemed not unnecessary , so uplifted and aerial was Anne 's expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet , her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit . `` Oh , Marilla , can I go right now -- without washing my dishes ? I 'll wash them when I come back , but I can not tie myself down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing at this thrilling moment . '' `` Yes , yes , run along , '' said Marilla indulgently . `` Anne Shirley -- are you crazy ? Come back this instant and put something on you . I might as well call to the wind . She 's gone without a cap or wrap . Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming . It 'll be a mercy if she does n't catch her death of cold . '' Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places .
Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering , pearl-like sparkle of an evening star XXXXX a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce .
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