You would n't think so to look at me , would you ? But you never can tell about people from their outsides . Everybody has forgot about me and John . I 'd forgotten myself . But it all came back to me when I saw Gilbert last Sunday . '' CHAPTER XXXVIII . The Bend in the road Marilla went to town the next day and returned in the evening . Anne had gone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came back to find Marilla in the kitchen , sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand . Something in her dejected attitude struck a chill to Anne 's heart . She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that . `` Are you very tired , Marilla ? '' `` Yes -- no -- I do n't know , '' said Marilla wearily , looking up . `` I suppose I am tired but I have n't thought about it . It 's not that . '' `` Did you see the oculist ? What did he say ? '' asked Anne anxiously . `` Yes , I saw him . He examined my eyes . He says that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work that strains the eyes , and if I 'm careful not to cry , and if I wear the glasses he 's given me he thinks my eyes may not get any worse and my headaches will be cured .
But if I do n't he XXXXX I 'll certainly be stone-blind in six months .
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