原文
"You can make a layer cake," promised Marilla.
Monday and Tuesday great preparations went on at Green Gables. Having the minister and his wife to tea was a serious and important undertaking, and Marilla was determined not to be eclipsed by any of the Avonlea housekeepers. Anne was wild with excitement and delight. She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the twilight, as they sat on the big red stones by the Dryad's Bubble and made rainbows in the water with little twigs dipped in fir balsam.
語彙など
- layer cake:(クリーム・ジャムなどをはさんで何層にも重ねたスポンジケーキ),レイヤー･ケーキ
- preparation:用意
- undertaking:仕事
- eclipse:しのぐ,上回る
- housekeeper:家事をする人
- wild with excitement:狂喜して
- twilight:黄昏どき
- fir balsam:=balsam fir,バルサムモミ(樹木)