You'll stay to tea ?" "Well, seeing you're so pressing, perhaps I might as well, stay" said Mrs.Rachel, who had not the slightest intention of doing anything else.
Mrs.Rachel and Marilla sat comfortably in the parlor while Anne got the tea and made hot biscuits that were light and white enough to defy even Mrs.Rachel's criticism.
"I must say Anne has turned out a real smart girl," admitted Mrs.
Rachel, as Marilla accompanied her to the end of the lane at sunset.
"She must be a great help to you." "She is," said Marilla, "and she's real steady and reliable now.

I used to be afraid she'd never get over her featherbrained ways, but she has and I wouldn't be afraid to trust her in anything now." "I never would have thought she'd have turned out so well that first day I was here three years ago," said Mrs.Rachel.

"Lawful heart, shall I ever forget that tantrum of hers! When I went home that night I says to Thomas, says I, 'Mark my words, Thomas, Marilla Cuthbert'll live to rue the step she's took.' But I was mistaken and I'm real glad of it.

I ain't one of those kind of people, Marilla, as can never be brought to own up that they've made a mistake.

No, that never was my way, thank goodness.