The geometry examination and all the others were over in due time and
Anne arrived home on Friday evening, rather tired but with an air of
chastened triumph about her. Diana was over at Green Gables when she
arrived and they met as if they had been parted for years.
You old darling, it s perfectly splendid to see you back again. It
seems like an age since you went to town and oh, Anne, how did you get
along?
Pretty well, I think, in everything but the geometry. I don t know
whether I passed in it or not and I have a creepy, crawly presentiment
that I didn t. Oh, how good it is to be back! Green Gables is the
dearest, loveliest spot in the world.
How did the others do?
The girls say they know they didn t pass, but I think they did pretty
well. Josie says the geometry was so easy a child of ten could do it!
Moody Spurgeon still thinks he failed in history and Charlie says he
failed in algebra. But we don t really know anything about it and won t
until the pass list is out. That won t be for a fortnight. Fancy living
a fortnight in such suspense! I wish I could go to sleep and never wake
up until it is over.
Diana knew it would be useless to ask how Gilbert Blythe had fared, so
she merely said:
Oh, you ll pass all right. Don t worry.
I d rather not pass at all than not come out pretty well up on the
list, flashed Anne, by which she meant--and Diana knew she meant--that
success would be incomplete and bitter if she did not come out ahead of
Gilbert Blythe.
With this end in view Anne had strained every nerve during the
examinations. So had Gilbert. They had met and passed each other on the
street a dozen times without any sign of recognition and every time Anne
had held her head a little higher and wished a little more earnestly
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