I want to know . '' Anne looked beseechingly at Marilla . `` I do n't want to be too hard on the child , '' said Marilla . `` I daresay nobody ever did tell him it was wrong to tell lies , and those Sprott children were no fit companions for him . Poor Mary was too sick to train him properly and I presume you could n't expect a six-year-old child to know things like that by instinct . I suppose we 'll just have to assume he does n't know ANYTHING right and begin at the beginning . But he 'll have to be punished for shutting Dora up , and I ca n't think of any way except to send him to bed without his supper and we 've done that so often . Ca n't you suggest something else , Anne ? I should think you ought to be able to , with that imagination you 're always talking of . '' `` But punishments are so horrid and I like to imagine only pleasant things , '' said Anne , cuddling Davy . `` There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more . '' In the end Davy was sent to bed , as usual , there to remain until noon next day . He evidently did some thinking , for when Anne went up to her room a little later she heard him calling her name softly . Going in , she found him sitting up in bed , with his elbows on his knees and his chin propped on his hands . `` Anne , '' he said solemnly , `` is it wrong for everybody to tell whop ... falsehoods ? I want to know ? '' `` Yes , indeed . '' `` Is it wrong for a grown-up person ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Then , '' said Davy decidedly , `` Marilla is bad , for SHE tells them .
And she 's worse 'n me , for I did n't XXXXX it was wrong but she does . ''
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