She certainly needs you much more than I do." "I'd rather go back to the asylum than go to live with her," said Anne passionately.

"She looks exactly like a--like a gimlet." Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech.
"A little girl like you should be ashamed of talking so about a lady and a stranger," she said severely.

"Go back and sit down quietly and hold your tongue and behave as a good girl should." "I'll try to do and be anything you want me, if you'll only keep me," said Anne, returning meekly to her ottoman.
When they arrived back at Green Gables that evening Matthew met them in the lane.

Marilla from afar had noted him prowling along it and guessed his motive.

She was prepared for the relief she read in his face when he saw that she had at least brought back Anne back with her.