She saw nothing to laugh at in the situation, which to her eyes appeared very serious.

When she left Mrs.Lynde's she took her way across the crusted fields to Orchard Slope.

Diana met her at the kitchen door.
"Your Aunt Josephine was very cross about it, wasn't she ?" whispered Anne.
"Yes," answered Diana, stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed sitting-room door.

"She was fairly dancing with rage, Anne.

Oh, how she scolded.