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Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised.
Marilla came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door.

But when her eyes fell of the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the long braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short in amazement.
"Matthew Cuthbert, who's that ?" she ejaculated.

"Where is the boy ?" "There wasn't any boy," said Matthew wretchedly.

"There was only HER." He nodded at the child, remembering that he had never even asked her name.
"No boy! But there MUST have been a boy," insisted Marilla.