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1"I never tasted it," said Anne. "I thought it was the cordial. I meant to be so--so--hospitable. Diana got awfully sick
2and had to go home. Mrs. Barry told Mrs. Lynde she was simply dead drunk. She just laughed silly-like when her mother
3asked her what was the matter and went to sleep and slept for hours. Her mother smelled her breath and knew she was
4drunk. She had a fearful headache all day yesterday. Mrs. Barry is so indignant. She will never believe but what I did
5it on purpose." "I should think she would better punish Diana for being so greedy as to drink three glassfuls of
6anything," said Marilla shortly. "Why, three of those big glasses would have made her sick even if it had only been
7cordial. Well, this story will be a nice handle for those folks who are so down on me for making currant wine, although
8I haven't made any for three years ever since I found out that the minister didn't approve. I just kept that bottle for
9sickness. There, there, child, don't cry. I can't see as you were to blame although I'm sorry it happened so." "I must
10cry," said Anne. "My heart is broken. The stars in their courses fight against me, Marilla. Diana and I are parted
11forever. Oh, Marilla, I little dreamed of this when first we swore our vows of friendship." "Don't be foolish, Anne.
12Mrs. Barry will think better of it when she finds you're not to blame. I suppose she thinks you've done it for a silly
13joke or something of that sort. You'd best go up this evening and tell her how it was." "My courage fails me at the
14thought of facing Diana's injured mother," sighed Anne. "I wish you'd go, Marilla. You're so much more dignified than I
15am. Likely she'd listen to you quicker than to me." "Well, I will," said Marilla, reflecting that it would probably be
16the wiser course. "Don't cry any more, Anne. It will be all right." Marilla had changed her mind about it being all
17right by the time she got back from Orchard Slope. Anne was watching for her coming and flew to the porch door to meet
18her. "Oh, Marilla, I know by your face that it's been no use," she said sorrowfully. "Mrs. Barry won't forgive me?"
19"Mrs. Barry indeed!" snapped Marilla. "Of all the unreasonable women I ever saw she's the worst. I told her it was all a
20mistake and you weren't to blame, but she just simply didn't believe me. And she rubbed it well in about my currant wine
21and how I'd always said it couldn't have the least effect on anybody. I just told her plainly that currant wine wasn't
22meant to be drunk three tumblerfuls at a time and that if a child I had to do with was so greedy I'd sober her up with a
23right good spanking." Marilla whisked into the kitchen, grievously disturbed, leaving a very much distracted little soul
24in the porch behind her. Presently Anne stepped out bareheaded into the chill autumn dusk; very determinedly and
25steadily she took her way down through the sere clover field over the log bridge and up through the spruce grove,
26lighted by a pale little moon hanging low over the western woods. Mrs. Barry, coming to the door in answer to a timid
27knock, found a white-lipped eager-eyed suppliant on the doorstep. Her face hardened. Mrs. Barry was a woman of strong
28prejudices and dislikes, and her anger was of the cold, sullen sort which is always hardest to overcome. To do her
29justice, she really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense, and she was honestly anxious to
30preserve her little daughter from the contamination of further intimacy with such a child. "What do you want?" she said
31stiffly. Anne clasped her hands. "Oh, Mrs. Barry, please forgive me. I did not mean to--to--intoxicate Diana. How could
32I? Just imagine if you were a poor little orphan girl that kind people had adopted and you had just one bosom friend in
33all the world. Do you think you would intoxicate her on purpose? I thought it was only raspberry cordial. I was firmly
34convinced it was raspberry cordial. Oh, please don't say that you won't let Diana play with me any more. If you do you
35will cover my life with a dark cloud of woe." This speech which would have softened good Mrs. Lynde's heart in a
36twinkling, had no effect on Mrs. Barry except to irritate her still more. She was suspicious of Anne's big words and
37dramatic gestures and imagined that the child was making fun of her. So she said, coldly and cruelly: "I don't think you
38are a fit little girl for Diana to associate with. You'd better go home and behave yourself." Anne's lips quivered.
39"Won't you let me see Diana just once to say farewell?" she implored. "Diana has gone over to Carmody with her father,"
40said Mrs. Barry, going in and shutting the door. Anne went back to Green Gables calm with despair. "My last hope is
41gone," she told Marilla. "I went up and saw Mrs. Barry myself and she treated me very insultingly. Marilla, I do not
42think she is a well-bred woman. There is nothing more to do except to pray and I haven't much hope that that'll do much
43good because, Marilla, I do not believe that God Himself can do very much with such an obstinate person as Mrs. Barry."
44"Anne, you shouldn't say such things" rebuked Marilla, striving to overcome that unholy tendency to laughter which she
45was dismayed to find growing upon her. And indeed, when she told the whole story to Matthew that night, she did laugh
46heartily over Anne's tribulations. But when she slipped into the east gable before going to bed and found that Anne had
47cried herself to sleep an unaccustomed softness crept into her face. "Poor little soul," she murmured, lifting a loose
48curl of hair from the child's tear-stained face. Then she bent down and kissed the flushed cheek on the pillow.
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