"Diana says perhaps they have something better, but there couldn't be anything better than Mayflowers, could there, Marilla?
And Diana says if they don't know what they are like they don't miss them.

But I think that is the saddest thing of all.

I think it would be TRAGIC, Marilla, not to know what Mayflowers are like and NOT to miss them.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla?
I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer and this is their heaven.

But we had a splendid time today, Marilla.