“Well, thank you, Rachel, ” replied Marilla, pleased.
That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he saw that his sister was crying.
“What’s the matter?” he asked, surprised. “You haven’t cried since. . . well, I can’t remember when. ”
“It’s just. . . well, I was thinking about Anne, ” said Marilla. “I’ll. . . I’ll miss her when she goes away. ”
“When she goes to Queen’s, you mean?Yes, but she can come home at weekends, on the train. ”
“I’ll still miss her, ” said Marilla sadly.
In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations.
“Oh, I do hope that I’ve done well, ” Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables. “The examinations were very difficult. And I’ve got to wait for three weeks before I know! Three weeks! I’ll die! ”
Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert. But she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her.
Diana was the first to hear the news, she ran into the kitchen at Green Gables and shouted, “Look, Anne! It’s in Father’s newspaper! You’re first. . . with Gilbert. . . out of all the students on the island! Oh, how wonderful! ” Anne took the paper with shaking hands, and saw her name, at the top of the list of two hundred. She could not speak.
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