But she said nothing, to him, relative to the affair, until they were both out in the yard behind the barn milking the cows.

Then she briefly told him Anne's history and the result of the interview with Mrs.Spencer.
"I wouldn't give a dog I liked to that Blewett woman," said Matthew with unusual vim.
"I don't fancy her style myself," admitted Marilla, "but it's that or keeping her ourselves, Matthew.

And since you seem to want her, I suppose I'm willing--or have to be.

I've been thinking over the idea until I've got kind of used to it.

It seems a sort of duty.