"Of course it's a little too exciting to be proper reading for Sunday, and I only read it on weekdays.

And I never read ANY book now unless either Miss Stacy or Mrs.Allan thinks it is a proper book for a girl thirteen and three-quarters to read.

Miss Stacy made me promise that.

She found me reading a book one day called, The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall.

It was one Ruby Gillis had lent me, and, oh, Marilla, it was so fascinating and creepy.