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Ross to think I was a ladylike little girl, even if I wasn’t pretty. Everything went right until I saw Marilla coming with the plum pudding in one hand and the pitcher of pudding sauce (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)warmed up(end superscript) in the other. Diana, that was a terrible moment. I remembered everything and I just stood up in my place and shrieked out, ‘Marilla, you mustn’t use that pudding sauce. There was a mouse drowned in it. I forgot to tell you before![’] Oh; Diana, I shall never forget that awful moment if I live to be a hundred. Mrs. Chester Ross just looked at me She is and I thought I would sink through the floor with mortification. She is such a perfect housekeeper and fancy what she must have thought of