"Well, I confess I have nothing good to say about the orphan asylum, and it's a very good thing that I have an imagination so that I was able to endure it," Anne told him, "but that was when I was sent for by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. Oh, they didn't send for me particularly, but I was the closest thing that the orphan asylum had to what they thought was being asked for, so off I went to Prince Edward Island."