implored Diana . `` You know I can make splendid lettuce salad . '' `` Indeed you , may '' said Anne unselfishly . `` And I shall want you to help me decorate too . I mean to have the parlor simply a BOWER of blossoms ... and the dining table is to be adorned with wild roses . Oh , I do hope everything will go smoothly . Mrs. Morgan 's heroines NEVER get into scrapes or are taken at a disadvantage , and they are always so selfpossessed and such good housekeepers . They seem to be BORN good housekeepers . You remember that Gertrude in ` Edgewood Days ' kept house for her father when she was only eight years old . When I was eight years old I hardly knew how to do a thing except bring up children . Mrs. Morgan must be an authority on girls when she has written so much about them , and I do want her to have a good opinion of us . I 've imagined it all out a dozen different ways ... what she 'll look like , and what she 'll say , and what I 'll say . And I 'm so anxious about my nose . There are seven freckles on it , as you can see . They came at the A.V.I S. picnic , when I went around in the sun without my hat . I suppose it 's ungrateful of me to worry over them , when I should be thankful they 're not spread all over my face as they once were ; but I do wish they had n't come ... all Mrs. Morgan 's heroines have such perfect complexions . I ca n't recall a freckled one among them . '' `` Yours are not very noticeable , '' comforted Diana . `` Try a little lemon juice on them tonight . '' The next day Anne made her pies and lady fingers , did up her muslin dress , and swept and dusted every room in the house ... a quite unnecessary proceeding , for Green Gables was , as usual , in the apple pie order dear to Marilla 's heart .
But Anne felt that a fleck of dust would be a desecration XXXXX a house that was to be honored by a visit from Charlotte E. Morgan .
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