`` Davy Keith , '' she said , `` go straight to your bed and do n't let me catch you out of it again tonight ! Go , now ! '' Davy went , and stood not upon the order of his going . Chapter XIV The Summons Anne was sitting with Ruby Gillis in the Gillis ' garden after the day had crept lingeringly through it and was gone . It had been a warm , smoky summer afternoon . The world was in a splendor of out-flowering . The idle valleys were full of hazes . The woodways were pranked with shadows and the fields with the purple of the asters . Anne had given up a moonlight drive to the White Sands beach that she might spend the evening with Ruby . She had so spent many evenings that summer , although she often wondered what good it did any one , and sometimes went home deciding that she could not go again . Ruby grew paler as the summer waned ; the White Sands school was given up -- `` her father thought it better that she should n't teach till New Year 's '' -- and the fancy work she loved oftener and oftener fell from hands grown too weary for it . But she was always gay , always hopeful , always chattering and whispering of her beaux , and their rivalries and despairs . It was this that made Anne 's visits hard for her . What had once been silly or amusing was gruesome , now ; it was death peering through a wilful mask of life . Yet Ruby seemed to cling to her , and never let her go until she had promised to come again soon . Mrs. Lynde grumbled about Anne 's frequent visits , and declared she would catch consumption ; even Marilla was dubious . `` Every time you go to see Ruby you come home looking tired out , '' she said . `` It 's so very sad and dreadful , '' said Anne in a low tone . `` Ruby does n't seem to realize her condition in the least . And yet I somehow feel she needs help -- craves it -- and I want to give it to her and ca n't .
All the time I 'm with her I XXXXX as if I were watching her struggle with an invisible foe -- trying to push it back with such feeble resistance as she has .
chattering feel grew made spend stood waned went whispering wondered