Can I take her into the spare room to lay off her hat when she comes?
And then into the parlor to sit ?" "No.

The sitting room will do for you and your company.

But there's a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.

It's on the second shelf of the sitting-room closet and you and Diana can have it if you like, and a cooky to eat with it along in the afternoon, for I daresay Matthew'll be late coming in to tea since he's hauling potatoes to the vessel." Anne flew down to the hollow, past the Dryad's Bubble and up the spruce path to Orchard Slope, to ask Diana to tea.

As a result just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody, Diana came over, dressed in HER second-best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea.