Marilla, walking home one late April evening, realized that the winter was over and gone.
It did not matter how old she was; this thought still made her happy. She thought of the fire going and a table nicely spread for tea, and she felt happy that Anne was home to do these things. So when she entered her kitchen and found the fire dark, with no sign of Anne, she was very disappointed and angry.
So Marilla made the tea herself. It was dark and still no sign of Anne. Marilla went to light the candle in Anne's room and saw the girl lying on the bed face down.
"Please, Marilla, go away and don't look at me," said a small voice.
"Anne Shirley, whatever is the matter with you? What have you done?"
"Look at my hair, Marilla," she whispered.
Marilla lifted her candle and looked at Anne's hair, which ran all down her back. It looked strange.
"Anne Shirley, what have you done to your hair? Why, it's green!"
"Yes, it's green, " groaned Anne. "I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair. But now I know it's ten times worse to have green hair."
"How did this happen?'
"I dyed(染发)it. I knew it was a bad thing to do, " said Anne. "But I didn't mean to dye it green, Marilla. He said it would turn my hair a beautiful black."
"Who said? Who are you talking about?"
The man from Germany came this afternoon. I bought the dye from him."
Anne's unhappiness continued for a week. During that time, she went nowhere and washed her hair every day. Nothing worked.
At the end of the week, Marilla said, "It's no use, Anne. Your hair must be cut off. You can't go out with it looking like that."
And so Marilla cut almost all of Anne's hair off.
Everybody talked about Anne in school on Monday; but to her relief, nobody guessed the real reason for her new hair cut.
—Taken from Anne of Green Gables
a. Marilla saw Anne lying face down on her bed, and her hair was green.
b. Marilla was surprised to hear how Anne bought dye from a man and tried to make her hair black.
c. Marilla came home and saw that Anne had not lit the fire.
d. She had cut almost all of Anne's hair off but no one guessed the reason why.
e. She went up to Anne's room with a candle.