I call it AVERIL'S ATONEMENT.
Doesn't that sound nice and alliterative?
Now, Diana, tell me candidly, do you see any faults in my story ?" "Well," hesitated Diana, "that part where AVERIL makes the cake doesn't seem to me quite romantic enough to match the rest.

It's just what anybody might do.

Heroines shouldn't do cooking, _I_ think." "Why, that is where the humor comes in, and it's one of the best parts of the whole story," said Anne.

And it may be stated that in this she was quite right.
Diana prudently refrained from any further criticism, but Mr.Harrison was much harder to please.

First he told her there was entirely too much description in the story.
"Cut out all those flowery passages," he said unfeelingly.
Anne had an uncomfortable conviction that Mr.Harrison was right, and she forced herself to expunge most of her beloved descriptions, though it took three re-writings before the story could be pruned down to please the fastidious Mr.Harrison.
"I've left out ALL the descriptions but the sunset," she said at last.
"I simply COULDN'T let it go.