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1"Nobody else asked any except Ruby Gillis, and she asked if there was to be a Sunday-school picnic this summer. I didn't
2think that was a very proper question to ask because it hadn't any connection with the lesson--the lesson was about
3Daniel in the lions' den--but Mrs. Allan just smiled and said she thought there would be. Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile;
4she has such exquisite dimples in her cheeks. I wish I had dimples in my cheeks, Marilla. I'm not half so skinny as I
5was when I came here, but I have no dimples yet. If I had perhaps I could influence people for good. Mrs. Allan said we
6ought always to try to influence other people for good. She talked so nice about everything. I never knew before that
7religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to
8be a Christian if I could be one like her. I wouldn't want to be one like Mr. Superintendent Bell." "It's very naughty
9of you to speak so about Mr. Bell," said Marilla severely. "Mr. Bell is a real good man." "Oh, of course he's good,"
10agreed Anne, "but he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I
11was glad of it. I suppose Mrs. Allan is too old to dance and sing and of course it wouldn't be dignified in a minister's
12wife. But I can just feel she's glad she's a Christian and that she'd be one even if she could get to heaven without
13it." "I suppose we must have Mr. and Mrs. Allan up to tea someday soon," said Marilla reflectively. "They've been most
14everywhere but here. Let me see. Next Wednesday would be a good time to have them. But don't say a word to Matthew about
15it, for if he knew they were coming he'd find some excuse to be away that day. He'd got so used to Mr. Bentley he didn't
16mind him, but he's going to find it hard to get acquainted with a new minister, and a new minister's wife will frighten
17him to death." "I'll be as secret as the dead," assured Anne. "But oh, Marilla, will you let me make a cake for the
18occasion? I'd love to do something for Mrs. Allan, and you know I can make a pretty good cake by this time." "You can
19make a layer cake," promised Marilla. Monday and Tuesday great preparations went on at Green Gables. Having the minister
20and his wife to tea was a serious and important undertaking, and Marilla was determined not to be eclipsed by any of the
21Avonlea housekeepers. Anne was wild with excitement and delight. She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the
22twilight, as they sat on the big red stones by the Dryad's Bubble and made rainbows in the water with little twigs
23dipped in fir balsam. "Everything is ready, Diana, except my cake which I'm to make in the morning, and the
24baking-powder biscuits which Marilla will make just before teatime. I assure you, Diana, that Marilla and I have had a
25busy two days of it. It's such a responsibility having a minister's family to tea. I never went through such an
26experience before. You should just see our pantry. It's a sight to behold. We're going to have jellied chicken and cold
27tongue. We're to have two kinds of jelly, red and yellow, and whipped cream and lemon pie, and cherry pie, and three
28kinds of cookies, and fruit cake, and Marilla's famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers,
29and pound cake and layer cake, and biscuits as aforesaid; and new bread and old both, in case the minister is dyspeptic
30and can't eat new. Mrs. Lynde says ministers are dyspeptic, but I don't think Mr. Allan has been a minister long enough
31for it to have had a bad effect on him. I just grow cold when I think of my layer cake. Oh, Diana, what if it shouldn't
32be good! I dreamed last night that I was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head." "It'll
33be good, all right," assured Diana, who was a very comfortable sort of friend. "I'm sure that piece of the one you made
34that we had for lunch in Idlewild two weeks ago was perfectly elegant." "Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of
35turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good," sighed Anne, setting a particularly well-balsamed twig
36afloat. "However, I suppose I shall just have to trust to Providence and be careful to put in the flour. Oh, look,
37Diana, what a lovely rainbow! Do you suppose the dryad will come out after we go away and take it for a scarf?" "You
38know there is no such thing as a dryad," said Diana. Diana's mother had found out about the Haunted Wood and had been
39decidedly angry over it. As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not
40think it prudent to cultivate a spirit of belief even in harmless dryads. "But it's so easy to imagine there is," said
41Anne. "Every night before I go to bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing
42her locks with the spring for a mirror. Sometimes I look for her footprints in the dew in the morning. Oh, Diana, don't
43give up your faith in the dryad!" Wednesday morning came. Anne got up at sunrise because she was too excited to sleep.
44She had caught a severe cold in the head by reason of her dabbling in the spring on the preceding evening; but nothing
45short of absolute pneumonia could have quenched her interest in culinary matters that morning. After breakfast she
46proceeded to make her cake. When she finally shut the oven door upon it she drew a long breath. "I'm sure I haven't
47forgotten anything this time, Marilla. But do you think it will rise? Just suppose perhaps the baking powder isn't good?
48I used it out of the new can. And Mrs. Lynde says you can never be sure of getting good baking powder nowadays when
49everything is so adulterated. Mrs. Lynde says the Government ought to take the matter up, but she says we'll never see
50the day when a Tory Government will do it. Marilla, what if that cake doesn't rise?" "We'll have plenty without it" was
51Marilla's unimpassioned way of looking at the subject. The cake did rise, however, and came out of the oven as light and
52feathery as golden foam. Anne, flushed with delight, clapped it together with layers of ruby jelly and, in imagination,
53saw Mrs. Allan eating it and possibly asking for another piece! "You'll be using the best tea set, of course, Marilla,"
54she said. "Can I fix the table with ferns and wild roses?" "I think that's all nonsense," sniffed Marilla. "In my
55opinion it's the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations." "Mrs. Barry had her table decorated," said Anne,
56who was not entirely guiltless of the wisdom of the serpent, "and the minister paid her an elegant compliment. He said
57it was a feast for the eye as well as the palate." "Well, do as you like," said Marilla, who was quite determined not to
58be surpassed by Mrs. Barry or anybody else. "Only mind you leave enough room for the dishes and the food." Anne laid
59herself out to decorate in a manner and after a fashion that should leave Mrs. Barry's nowhere. Having abundance of
60roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the
61minister and his wife sat down to it they exclaimed in chorus over it loveliness. "It's Anne's doings," said Marilla,
62grimly just; and Anne felt that Mrs. Allan's approving smile was almost too much happiness for this world. Matthew was
63there, having been inveigled into the party only goodness and Anne knew how. He had been in such a state of shyness and
64nervousness that Marilla had given him up in despair, but Anne took him in hand so successfully that he now sat at the
65table in his best clothes and white collar and talked to the minister not uninterestingly. He never said a word to Mrs.
66Allan, but that perhaps was not to be expected. All went merry as a marriage bell until Anne's layer cake was passed.
67Mrs. Allan, having already been helped to a bewildering variety, declined it. But Marilla, seeing the disappointment on
68Anne's face, said smilingly: "Oh, you must take a piece of this, Mrs. Allan. Anne made it on purpose for you."
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