(ne Act I ANNE OF GREEN GABLES Page 35 DIANA. It’s perfect. I’m enraptured by the name. Idle- wild! (She drinks again.) ANNE. You've finished your cordial already. You must have some more. (She pours another for DIANA who drinks.) DIANA. It’s the best raspberry cordial lever drank. (ine continues to drink.) te ANNE. Everything Marilla makes is the best. She’s.teach- ing me to cook, but it’s all-uphill. I 'start.daydreaming and forget things - like.wheh"I forgot to put.the- flour in the cake, or the .stigar.im thé shortbread. {They laugh, DIANA quite loudly.) And last week was the worst. We had a plum pudding with sauce, and.some } was left over, so Marilla-told me to put it in the pantry and cover it. Well, I forgot all about covering ‘the sauce, and, Diana, a thouse drowned ‘in it! (DIANA laughs, uproariously, then finishes her cordial.) DIANA. Imagine... a mousé. May I please have hidther? ANNE.:Of course. (She pours the cordial, and DIANA im- mediately. begins to drink.) Well, ‘1 lifted the-moisé out and threw it in the yard, but I forgot to tell Marilla about it. The next day, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ross from ‘Spenserville were here, and Marilla served the pudding and sauce to them. (DIANA is near hysterics over this as she continues to drink.) Of course, I shrieked out, “You mustn’t use that pudding sauce, A mouse drdwned in it!” (She laughs.) I’m afraid ’'m such a trial for Marilla..(DIANA has suddenly become very quiet. She rises unsteadily.) Why, Diana, what‘is the smatter?.. DIANA. I don’t feel very well. I think Fd better go home. ANNE, But we haven’t had our‘ tea. I’ll-get it this very + minute.