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1MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?" asked Anne, running breathlessly down from the east gable one
2February evening. "I don't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for," said Marilla shortly. "You and Diana
3walked home from school together and then stood down there in the snow for half an hour more, your tongues going the
4whole blessed time, clickety-clack. So I don't think you're very badly off to see her again." "But she wants to see me,"
5pleaded Anne. "She has something very important to tell me." "How do you know she has?" "Because she just signaled to me
6from her window. We have arranged a way to signal with our candles and cardboard. We set the candle on the window sill
7and make flashes by passing the cardboard back and forth. So many flashes mean a certain thing. It was my idea,
8Marilla." "I'll warrant you it was," said Marilla emphatically. "And the next thing you'll be setting fire to the
9curtains with your signaling nonsense." "Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes mean,
10'Are you there?' Three mean 'yes' and four 'no.' Five mean, 'Come over as soon as possible, because I have something
11important to reveal.' Diana has just signaled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is." "Well, you
12needn't suffer any longer," said Marilla sarcastically. "You can go, but you're to be back here in just ten minutes,
13remember that." Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know
14just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana's important communication within the limits of ten minutes. But
15at least she had made good use of them. "Oh, Marilla, what do you think? You know tomorrow is Diana's birthday. Well,
16her mother told her she could ask me to go home with her from school and stay all night with her. And her cousins are
17coming over from Newbridge in a big pung sleigh to go to the Debating Club concert at the hall tomorrow night. And they
18are going to take Diana and me to the concert--if you'll let me go, that is. You will, won't you, Marilla? Oh, I feel so
19excited." "You can calm down then, because you're not going. You're better at home in your own bed, and as for that club
20concert, it's all nonsense, and little girls should not be allowed to go out to such places at all." "I'm sure the
21Debating Club is a most respectable affair," pleaded Anne. "I'm not saying it isn't. But you're not going to begin
22gadding about to concerts and staying out all hours of the night. Pretty doings for children. I'm surprised at Mrs.
23Barry's letting Diana go." "But it's such a very special occasion," mourned Anne, on the verge of tears. "Diana has only
24one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things, Marilla. Prissy Andrews is going to recite 'Curfew
25Must Not Ring Tonight.' That is such a good moral piece, Marilla, I'm sure it would do me lots of good to hear it. And
26the choir are going to sing four lovely pathetic songs that are pretty near as good as hymns. And oh, Marilla, the
27minister is going to take part; yes, indeed, he is; he's going to give an address. That will be just about the same
28thing as a sermon. Please, mayn't I go, Marilla?" "You heard what I said, Anne, didn't you? Take off your boots now and
29go to bed. It's past eight." "There's just one more thing, Marilla," said Anne, with the air of producing the last shot
30in her locker. "Mrs. Barry told Diana that we might sleep in the spare-room bed. Think of the honor of your little Anne
31being put in the spare-room bed." "It's an honor you'll have to get along without. Go to bed, Anne, and don't let me
32hear another word out of you." When Anne, with tears rolling over her cheeks, had gone sorrowfully upstairs, Matthew,
33who had been apparently sound asleep on the lounge during the whole dialogue, opened his eyes and said decidedly: "Well
34now, Marilla, I think you ought to let Anne go." "I don't then," retorted Marilla. "Who's bringing this child up,
35Matthew, you or me?" "Well now, you," admitted Matthew. "Don't interfere then." "Well now, I ain't interfering. It ain't
36interfering to have your own opinion. And my opinion is that you ought to let Anne go." "You'd think I ought to let Anne
37go to the moon if she took the notion, I've no doubt," was Marilla's amiable rejoinder. "I might have let her spend the
38night with Diana, if that was all. But I don't approve of this concert plan. She'd go there and catch cold like as not,
39and have her head filled up with nonsense and excitement. It would unsettle her for a week. I understand that child's
40disposition and what's good for it better than you, Matthew." "I think you ought to let Anne go," repeated Matthew
41firmly. Argument was not his strong point, but holding fast to his opinion certainly was. Marilla gave a gasp of
42helplessness and took refuge in silence. The next morning, when Anne was washing the breakfast dishes in the pantry,
43Matthew paused on his way out to the barn to say to Marilla again: "I think you ought to let Anne go, Marilla." For a
44moment Marilla looked things not lawful to be uttered. Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly: "Very well,
45she can go, since nothing else 'll please you." Anne flew out of the pantry, dripping dishcloth in hand. "Oh, Marilla,
46Marilla, say those blessed words again." "I guess once is enough to say them. This is Matthew's doings and I wash my
47hands of it. If you catch pneumonia sleeping in a strange bed or coming out of that hot hall in the middle of the night,
48don't blame me, blame Matthew. Anne Shirley, you're dripping greasy water all over the floor. I never saw such a
49careless child." "Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But
50then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might. I'll get some sand and scrub up the spots before I
51go to school. Oh, Marilla, my heart was just set on going to that concert. I never was to a concert in my life, and when
52the other girls talk about them in school I feel so out of it. You didn't know just how I felt about it, but you see
53Matthew did. Matthew understands me, and it's so nice to be understood, Marilla." Anne was too excited to do herself
54justice as to lessons that morning in school. Gilbert Blythe spelled her down in class and left her clear out of sight
55in mental arithmetic. Anne's consequent humiliation was less than it might have been, however, in view of the concert
56and the spare-room bed. She and Diana talked so constantly about it all day that with a stricter teacher than Mr.
57Phillips dire disgrace must inevitably have been their portion. Anne felt that she could not have borne it if she had
58not been going to the concert, for nothing else was discussed that day in school. The Avonlea Debating Club, which met
59fortnightly all winter, had had several smaller free entertainments; but this was to be a big affair, admission ten
60cents, in aid of the library. The Avonlea young people had been practicing for weeks, and all the scholars were
61especially interested in it by reason of older brothers and sisters who were going to take part. Everybody in school
62over nine years of age expected to go, except Carrie Sloane, whose father shared Marilla's opinions about small girls
63going out to night concerts. Carrie Sloane cried into her grammar all the afternoon and felt that life was not worth
64living. For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school and increased therefrom in crescendo until it
65reached to a crash of positive ecstasy in the concert itself. They had a "perfectly elegant tea;" and then came the
66delicious occupation of dressing in Diana's little room upstairs. Diana did Anne's front hair in the new pompadour style
67and Anne tied Diana's bows with the especial knack she possessed; and they experimented with at least half a dozen
68different ways of arranging their back hair. At last they were ready, cheeks scarlet and eyes glowing with excitement.
69True, Anne could not help a little pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, homemade
70gray-cloth coat with Diana's jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket. But she remembered in time that she had an
71imagination and could use it.
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