Do as I bid you." When Anne had gone Marilla went about her evening tasks in a very disturbed state of mind.

She was worried about her valuable brooch.

What if Anne had lost it?
And how wicked of the child to deny having taken it, when anybody could see she must have! With such an innocent face, too! "I don't know what I wouldn't sooner have had happen," thought Marilla, as she nervously shelled the peas.

"Of course, I don't suppose she meant to steal it or anything like that.

She's just taken it to play with or help along that imagination of hers.