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1FOR reasons best known to herself, Marilla did not tell Anne that she was to stay at Green Gables until the next
2afternoon. During the forenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over her with a keen eye while she
3did them. By noon she had concluded that Anne was smart and obedient, willing to work and quick to learn; her most
4serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until
5such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe. When Anne had finished washing the
6dinner dishes she suddenly confronted Marilla with the air and expression of one desperately determined to learn the
7worst. Her thin little body trembled from head to foot; her face flushed and her eyes dilated until they were almost
8black; she clasped her hands tightly and said in an imploring voice: "Oh, please, Miss Cuthbert, won't you tell me if
9you are going to send me away or not? I've tried to be patient all the morning, but I really feel that I cannot bear not
10knowing any longer. It's a dreadful feeling. Please tell me." "You haven't scalded the dishcloth in clean hot water as I
11told you to do," said Marilla immovably. "Just go and do it before you ask any more questions, Anne." Anne went and
12attended to the dishcloth. Then she returned to Marilla and fastened imploring eyes on the latter's face. "Well," said
13Marilla, unable to find any excuse for deferring her explanation longer, "I suppose I might as well tell you. Matthew
14and I have decided to keep you--that is, if you will try to be a good little girl and show yourself grateful. Why,
15child, whatever is the matter?" "I'm crying," said Anne in a tone of bewilderment. "I can't think why. I'm glad as glad
16can be. Oh, glad doesn't seem the right word at all. I was glad about the White Way and the cherry blossoms--but this!
17Oh, it's something more than glad. I'm so happy. I'll try to be so good. It will be uphill work, I expect, for Mrs.
18Thomas often told me I was desperately wicked. However, I'll do my very best. But can you tell me why I'm crying?" "I
19suppose it's because you're all excited and worked up," said Marilla disapprovingly. "Sit down on that chair and try to
20calm yourself. I'm afraid you both cry and laugh far too easily. Yes, you can stay here and we will try to do right by
21you. You must go to school; but it's only a fortnight till vacation so it isn't worth while for you to start before it
22opens again in September." "What am I to call you?" asked Anne. "Shall I always say Miss Cuthbert? Can I call you Aunt
23Marilla?" "No; you'll call me just plain Marilla. I'm not used to being called Miss Cuthbert and it would make me
24nervous." "It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla," protested Anne. "I guess there'll be nothing
25disrespectful in it if you're careful to speak respectfully. Everybody, young and old, in Avonlea calls me Marilla
26except the minister. He says Miss Cuthbert--when he thinks of it." "I'd love to call you Aunt Marilla," said Anne
27wistfully. "I've never had an aunt or any relation at all--not even a grandmother. It would make me feel as if I really
28belonged to you. Can't I call you Aunt Marilla?" "No. I'm not your aunt and I don't believe in calling people names that
29don't belong to them." "But we could imagine you were my aunt." "I couldn't," said Marilla grimly. "Do you never imagine
30things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed. "No." "Oh!" Anne drew a long breath. "Oh,
31Miss--Marilla, how much you miss!" "I don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are," retorted
32Marilla. "When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. And that reminds
33me. Go into the sitting room, Anne--be sure your feet are clean and don't let any flies in--and bring me out the
34illustrated card that's on the mantelpiece. The Lord's Prayer is on it and you'll devote your spare time this afternoon
35to learning it off by heart. There's to be no more of such praying as I heard last night." "I suppose I was very
36awkward," said Anne apologetically, "but then, you see, I'd never had any practice. You couldn't really expect a person
37to pray very well the first time she tried, could you? I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed, just as I
38promised you I would. It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical. But would you believe it? I couldn't
39remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good.
40Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?" "Here is
41something for you to notice, Anne. When I tell you to do a thing I want you to obey me at once and not stand stock-still
42and discourse about it. Just you go and do as I bid you." Anne promptly departed for the sitting-room across the hall;
43she failed to return; after waiting ten minutes Marilla laid down her knitting and marched after her with a grim
44expression. She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her
45eyes astar with dreams. The white and green light strained through apple-trees and clustering vines outside fell over
46the rapt little figure with a half-unearthly radiance. "Anne, whatever are you thinking of?" demanded Marilla sharply.
47Anne came back to earth with a start. "That," she said, pointing to the picture--a rather vivid chromo entitled, "Christ
48Blessing Little Children"--"and I was just imagining I was one of them--that I was the little girl in the blue dress,
49standing off by herself in the corner as if she didn't belong to anybody, like me. She looks lonely and sad, don't you
50think? I guess she hadn't any father or mother of her own. But she wanted to be blessed, too, so she just crept shyly up
51on the outside of the crowd, hoping nobody would notice her--except Him. I'm sure I know just how she felt. Her heart
52must have beat and her hands must have got cold, like mine did when I asked you if I could stay. She was afraid He
53mightn't notice her. But it's likely He did, don't you think? I've been trying to imagine it all out--her edging a
54little nearer all the time until she was quite close to Him; and then He would look at her and put His hand on her hair
55and oh, such a thrill of joy as would run over her! But I wish the artist hadn't painted Him so sorrowful-looking. All
56His pictures are like that, if you've noticed. But I don't believe He could really have looked so sad or the children
57would have been afraid of Him." "Anne," said Marilla, wondering why she had not broken into this speech long before,
58"you shouldn't talk that way. It's irreverent--positively irreverent." Anne's eyes marveled. "Why, I felt just as
59reverent as could be. I'm sure I didn't mean to be irreverent." "Well, I don't suppose you did--but it doesn't sound
60right to talk so familiarly about such things. And another thing, Anne, when I send you after something you're to bring
61it at once and not fall into mooning and imagining before pictures. Remember that. Take that card and come right to the
62kitchen. Now, sit down in the corner and learn that prayer off by heart." Anne set the card up against the jugful of
63apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner table--Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said
64nothing--propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes. "I like this," she
65announced at length. "It's beautiful. I've heard it before--I heard the superintendent of the asylum Sunday-school say
66it over once. But I didn't like it then. He had such a cracked voice and he prayed it so mournfully. I really felt sure
67he thought praying was a disagreeable duty. This isn't poetry, but it makes me feel just the same way poetry does. 'Our
68Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.' That is just like a line of music. Oh, I'm so glad you thought of
69making me learn this, Miss--Marilla." "Well, learn it and hold your tongue," said Marilla shortly.
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