Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly.

Diana could not understand this.
"MAKE them do as you want them to," she said.
"I can't," mourned Anne.

"Averil is such an unmanageable heroine.

She WILL do and say things I never meant her to.

Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again." Finally, however, the story was finished, and Anne read it to Diana in the seclusion of the porch gable.