"You'll have the night to think over your conduct in and come to a better frame of mind.

You said you would try to be a very good girl if we kept you at Green Gables, but I must say it hasn't seemed very much like it this evening." Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.

She was as angry with herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs.Rachel's dumbfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh..