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1"Isn't it just like a palace?" whispered Diana. "I never was in Aunt Josephine's house before, and I'd no idea it was so
2grand. I just wish Julia Bell could see this--she puts on such airs about her mother's parlor." "Velvet carpet," sighed
3Anne luxuriously, "and silk curtains! I've dreamed of such things, Diana. But do you know I don't believe I feel very
4comfortable with them after all. There are so many things in this room and all so splendid that there is no scope for
5imagination. That is one consolation when you are poor--there are so many more things you can imagine about." Their
6sojourn in town was something that Anne and Diana dated from for years. From first to last it was crowded with delights.
7On Wednesday Miss Barry took them to the Exhibition grounds and kept them there all day. "It was splendid," Anne related
8to Marilla later on. "I never imagined anything so interesting. I don't really know which department was the most
9interesting. I think I liked the horses and the flowers and the fancywork best. Josie Pye took first prize for knitted
10lace. I was real glad she did. And I was glad that I felt glad, for it shows I'm improving, don't you think, Marilla,
11when I can rejoice in Josie's success? Mr. Harmon Andrews took second prize for Gravenstein apples and Mr. Bell took
12first prize for a pig. Diana said she thought it was ridiculous for a Sunday-school superintendent to take a prize in
13pigs, but I don't see why. Do you? She said she would always think of it after this when he was praying so solemnly.
14Clara Louise MacPherson took a prize for painting, and Mrs. Lynde got first prize for homemade butter and cheese. So
15Avonlea was pretty well represented, wasn't it? Mrs. Lynde was there that day, and I never knew how much I really liked
16her until I saw her familiar face among all those strangers. There were thousands of people there, Marilla. It made me
17feel dreadfully insignificant. And Miss Barry took us up to the grandstand to see the horse races. Mrs. Lynde wouldn't
18go; she said horse racing was an abomination and, she being a church member, thought it her bounden duty to set a good
19example by staying away. But there were so many there I don't believe Mrs. Lynde's absence would ever be noticed. I
20don't think, though, that I ought to go very often to horse races, because they are awfully fascinating. Diana got so
21excited that she offered to bet me ten cents that the red horse would win. I didn't believe he would, but I refused to
22bet, because I wanted to tell Mrs. Allan all about everything, and I felt sure it wouldn't do to tell her that. It's
23always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife. It's as good as an extra conscience to have a minister's
24wife for your friend. And I was very glad I didn't bet, because the red horse did win, and I would have lost ten cents.
25So you see that virtue was its own reward. We saw a man go up in a balloon. I'd love to go up in a balloon, Marilla; it
26would be simply thrilling; and we saw a man selling fortunes. You paid him ten cents and a little bird picked out your
27fortune for you. Miss Barry gave Diana and me ten cents each to have our fortunes told. Mine was that I would marry a
28dark-complected man who was very wealthy, and I would go across water to live. I looked carefully at all the dark men I
29saw after that, but I didn't care much for any of them, and anyhow I suppose it's too early to be looking out for him
30yet. Oh, it was a never-to-be-forgotten day, Marilla. I was so tired I couldn't sleep at night. Miss Barry put us in the
31spare room, according to promise. It was an elegant room, Marilla, but somehow sleeping in a spare room isn't what I
32used to think it was. That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much
33when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them." Thursday the girls had a drive in the
34park, and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music, where a noted prima donna was to
35sing. To Anne the evening was a glittering vision of delight. "Oh, Marilla, it was beyond description. I was so excited
36I couldn't even talk, so you may know what it was like. I just sat in enraptured silence. Madame Selitsky was perfectly
37beautiful, and wore white satin and diamonds. But when she began to sing I never thought about anything else. Oh, I
38can't tell you how I felt. But it seemed to me that it could never be hard to be good any more. I felt like I do when I
39look up to the stars. Tears came into my eyes, but, oh, they were such happy tears. I was so sorry when it was all over,
40and I told Miss Barry I didn't see how I was ever to return to common life again. She said she thought if we went over
41to the restaurant across the street and had an ice cream it might help me. That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I
42found it true. The ice cream was delicious, Marilla, and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there eating it
43at eleven o'clock at night. Diana said she believed she was born for city life. Miss Barry asked me what my opinion was,
44but I said I would have to think it over very seriously before I could tell her what I really thought. So I thought it
45over after I went to bed. That is the best time to think things out. And I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I
46wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven
47o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in the east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but
48kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and that the wind was blowing in the firs across
49the brook. I told Miss Barry so at breakfast the next morning and she laughed. Miss Barry generally laughed at anything
50I said, even when I said the most solemn things. I don't think I liked it, Marilla, because I wasn't trying to be funny.
51But she is a most hospitable lady and treated us royally." Friday brought going-home time, and Mr. Barry drove in for
52the girls. "Well, I hope you've enjoyed yourselves," said Miss Barry, as she bade them good-bye. "Indeed we have," said
53Diana. "And you, Anne-girl?" "I've enjoyed every minute of the time," said Anne, throwing her arms impulsively about the
54old woman's neck and kissing her wrinkled cheek. Diana would never have dared to do such a thing and felt rather aghast
55at Anne's freedom. But Miss Barry was pleased, and she stood on her veranda and watched the buggy out of sight. Then she
56went back into her big house with a sigh. It seemed very lonely, lacking those fresh young lives. Miss Barry was a
57rather selfish old lady, if the truth must be told, and had never cared much for anybody but herself. She valued people
58only as they were of service to her or amused her. Anne had amused her, and consequently stood high in the old lady's
59good graces. But Miss Barry found herself thinking less about Anne's quaint speeches than of her fresh enthusiasms, her
60transparent emotions, her little winning ways, and the sweetness of her eyes and lips. "I thought Marilla Cuthbert was
61an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't
62make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman."
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