[MIND] Marilla isn't able to find her amethyst brooch, and Anne, her newly adopted daughter, confesses to being captivated by its brilliance. She had tried it on, then carefully returned it to Marilla's bureau, where she had found it, promising never to touch it again. However, Marilla is furious and skeptical, as the brooch is no longer on the bureau. Convinced that Anne has done something unthinkable to it, she insists Anne (of Green Gables) stay in her room and forbade her from attending the community picnic until she tells the truth.
Desperate to go to the picnic, Anne's imagination crafts an elaborate story: standing on a bridge, she had accidentally dropped the brooch into the Lake of shining waters, and it sank forevermore beneath the shimmering ripples. Marilla, believing this story, is consumed with hot anger. How could Anne be so careless?
But then, to her shock, Marilla discovers the brooch pinned to one of her shawls in the hallway (her own doing). She confronts Anne about her bridge tale.
Desperate to go to the picnic, Anne's imagination crafts an elaborate story: standing on a bridge, she had accidentally dropped the brooch into the Lake of shining waters, and it sank forevermore beneath the shimmering ripples. Marilla, believing this story, is consumed with hot anger. How could Anne be so careless?
But then, to her shock, Marilla discovers the brooch pinned to one of her shawls in the hallway (her own doing). She confronts Anne about her bridge tale.
Anne: I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
Marilla: But it was a lie.
Anne: You wouldn't believe the truth.