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1"In that case I must sample it," laughed Mrs. Allan, helping herself to a plump triangle, as did also the minister and
2Marilla. Mrs. Allan took a mouthful of hers and a most peculiar expression crossed her face; not a word did she say,
3however, but steadily ate away at it. Marilla saw the expression and hastened to taste the cake. "Anne Shirley!" she
4exclaimed, "what on earth did you put into that cake?" "Nothing but what the recipe said, Marilla," cried Anne with a
5look of anguish. "Oh, isn't it all right?" "All right! It's simply horrible. Mr. Allan, don't try to eat it. Anne, taste
6it yourself. What flavoring did you use?" "Vanilla," said Anne, her face scarlet with mortification after tasting the
7cake. "Only vanilla. Oh, Marilla, it must have been the baking powder. I had my suspicions of that bak--" "Baking powder
8fiddlesticks! Go and bring me the bottle of vanilla you used." Anne fled to the pantry and returned with a small bottle
9partially filled with a brown liquid and labeled yellowly, "Best Vanilla." Marilla took it, uncorked it, smelled it.
10"Mercy on us, Anne, you've flavored that cake with Anodyne Liniment. I broke the liniment bottle last week and poured
11what was left into an old empty vanilla bottle. I suppose it's partly my fault--I should have warned you--but for pity's
12sake why couldn't you have smelled it?" Anne dissolved into tears under this double disgrace. "I couldn't--I had such a
13cold!" and with this she fairly fled to the gable chamber, where she cast herself on the bed and wept as one who refuses
14to be comforted. Presently a light step sounded on the stairs and somebody entered the room. "Oh, Marilla," sobbed Anne,
15without looking up, "I'm disgraced forever. I shall never be able to live this down. It will get out--things always do
16get out in Avonlea. Diana will ask me how my cake turned out and I shall have to tell her the truth. I shall always be
17pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment. Gil--the boys in school will never get over laughing
18at it. Oh, Marilla, if you have a spark of Christian pity don't tell me that I must go down and wash the dishes after
19this. I'll wash them when the minister and his wife are gone, but I cannot ever look Mrs. Allan in the face again.
20Perhaps she'll think I tried to poison her. Mrs. Lynde says she knows an orphan girl who tried to poison her benefactor.
21But the liniment isn't poisonous. It's meant to be taken internally--although not in cakes. Won't you tell Mrs. Allan
22so, Marilla?" "Suppose you jump up and tell her so yourself," said a merry voice. Anne flew up, to find Mrs. Allan
23standing by her bed, surveying her with laughing eyes. "My dear little girl, you mustn't cry like this," she said,
24genuinely disturbed by Anne's tragic face. "Why, it's all just a funny mistake that anybody might make." "Oh, no, it
25takes me to make such a mistake," said Anne forlornly. "And I wanted to have that cake so nice for you, Mrs. Allan."
26"Yes, I know, dear. And I assure you I appreciate your kindness and thoughtfulness just as much as if it had turned out
27all right. Now, you mustn't cry any more, but come down with me and show me your flower garden. Miss Cuthbert tells me
28you have a little plot all your own. I want to see it, for I'm very much interested in flowers." Anne permitted herself
29to be led down and comforted, reflecting that it was really providential that Mrs. Allan was a kindred spirit. Nothing
30more was said about the liniment cake, and when the guests went away Anne found that she had enjoyed the evening more
31than could have been expected, considering that terrible incident. Nevertheless, she sighed deeply. "Marilla, isn't it
32nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" "I'll warrant you'll make plenty in it," said
33Marilla. "I never saw your beat for making mistakes, Anne." "Yes, and well I know it," admitted Anne mournfully. "But
34have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice." "I don't know as
35that's much benefit when you're always making new ones." "Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the
36mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very
37comforting thought." "Well, you'd better go and give that cake to the pigs," said Marilla. "It isn't fit for any human
38to eat, not even Jerry Boute."
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