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1ANNE had her "good" summer and enjoyed it wholeheartedly. She and Diana fairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the
2delights that Lover's Lane and the Dryad's Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded. Marilla offered no
3objections to Anne's gypsyings. The Spencervale doctor who had come the night Minnie May had the croup met Anne at the
4house of a patient one afternoon early in vacation, looked her over sharply, screwed up his mouth, shook his head, and
5sent a message to Marilla Cuthbert by another person. It was: "Keep that redheaded girl of yours in the open air all
6summer and don't let her read books until she gets more spring into her step." This message frightened Marilla
7wholesomely. She read Anne's death warrant by consumption in it unless it was scrupulously obeyed. As a result, Anne had
8the golden summer of her life as far as freedom and frolic went. She walked, rowed, berried, and dreamed to her heart's
9content; and when September came she was bright-eyed and alert, with a step that would have satisfied the Spencervale
10doctor and a heart full of ambition and zest once more. "I feel just like studying with might and main," she declared as
11she brought her books down from the attic. "Oh, you good old friends, I'm glad to see your honest faces once more--yes,
12even you, geometry. I've had a perfectly beautiful summer, Marilla, and now I'm rejoicing as a strong man to run a race,
13as Mr. Allan said last Sunday. Doesn't Mr. Allan preach magnificent sermons? Mrs. Lynde says he is improving every day
14and the first thing we know some city church will gobble him up and then we'll be left and have to turn to and break in
15another green preacher. But I don't see the use of meeting trouble halfway, do you, Marilla? I think it would be better
16just to enjoy Mr. Allan while we have him. If I were a man I think I'd be a minister. They can have such an influence
17for good, if their theology is sound; and it must be thrilling to preach splendid sermons and stir your hearers' hearts.
18Why can't women be ministers, Marilla? I asked Mrs. Lynde that and she was shocked and said it would be a scandalous
19thing. She said there might be female ministers in the States and she believed there was, but thank goodness we hadn't
20got to that stage in Canada yet and she hoped we never would. But I don't see why. I think women would make splendid
21ministers. When there is a social to be got up or a church tea or anything else to raise money the women have to turn to
22and do the work. I'm sure Mrs. Lynde can pray every bit as well as Superintendent Bell and I've no doubt she could
23preach too with a little practice." "Yes, I believe she could," said Marilla dryly. "She does plenty of unofficial
24preaching as it is. Nobody has much of a chance to go wrong in Avonlea with Rachel to oversee them." "Marilla," said
25Anne in a burst of confidence, "I want to tell you something and ask you what you think about it. It has worried me
26terribly--on Sunday afternoons, that is, when I think specially about such matters. I do really want to be good; and
27when I'm with you or Mrs. Allan or Miss Stacy I want it more than ever and I want to do just what would please you and
28what you would approve of. But mostly when I'm with Mrs. Lynde I feel desperately wicked and as if I wanted to go and do
29the very thing she tells me I oughtn't to do. I feel irresistibly tempted to do it. Now, what do you think is the reason
30I feel like that? Do you think it's because I'm really bad and unregenerate?" Marilla looked dubious for a moment. Then
31she laughed. "If you are I guess I am too, Anne, for Rachel often has that very effect on me. I sometimes think she'd
32have more of an influence for good, as you say yourself, if she didn't keep nagging people to do right. There should
33have been a special commandment against nagging. But there, I shouldn't talk so. Rachel is a good Christian woman and
34she means well. There isn't a kinder soul in Avonlea and she never shirks her share of work." "I'm very glad you feel
35the same," said Anne decidedly. "It's so encouraging. I shan't worry so much over that after this. But I dare say
36there'll be other things to worry me. They keep coming up new all the time--things to perplex you, you know. You settle
37one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're
38beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what is right. It's a serious thing
39to grow up, isn't it, Marilla? But when I have such good friends as you and Matthew and Mrs. Allan and Miss Stacy I
40ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility
41because I have only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. I've grown two inches
42this summer, Marilla. Mr. Gillis measured me at Ruby's party. I'm so glad you made my new dresses longer. That
43dark-green one is so pretty and it was sweet of you to put on the flounce. Of course I know it wasn't really necessary,
44but flounces are so stylish this fall and Josie Pye has flounces on all her dresses. I know I'll be able to study better
45because of mine. I shall have such a comfortable feeling deep down in my mind about that flounce." "It's worth something
46to have that," admitted Marilla. Miss Stacy came back to Avonlea school and found all her pupils eager for work once
47more. Especially did the Queen's class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly
48shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as "the Entrance," at the thought of which one and
49all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes. Suppose they did not pass! That thought was doomed to haunt Anne
50through the waking hours of that winter, Sunday afternoons inclusive, to the almost entire exclusion of moral and
51theological problems. When Anne had bad dreams she found herself staring miserably at pass lists of the Entrance exams,
52where Gilbert Blythe's name was blazoned at the top and in which hers did not appear at all. But it was a jolly, busy,
53happy swift-flying winter. Schoolwork was as interesting, class rivalry as absorbing, as of yore. New worlds of thought,
54feeling, and ambition, fresh, fascinating fields of unexplored knowledge seemed to be opening out before Anne's eager
55eyes. "Hills peeped o'er hill and Alps on Alps arose." Much of all this was due to Miss Stacy's tactful, careful,
56broadminded guidance. She led her class to think and explore and discover for themselves and encouraged straying from
57the old beaten paths to a degree that quite shocked Mrs. Lynde and the school trustees, who viewed all innovations on
58established methods rather dubiously. Apart from her studies Anne expanded socially, for Marilla, mindful of the
59Spencervale doctor's dictum, no longer vetoed occasional outings. The Debating Club flourished and gave several
60concerts; there were one or two parties almost verging on grown-up affairs; there were sleigh drives and skating frolics
61galore. Between times Anne grew, shooting up so rapidly that Marilla was astonished one day, when they were standing
62side by side, to find the girl was taller than herself. "Why, Anne, how you've grown!" she said, almost unbelievingly. A
63sigh followed on the words. Marilla felt a queer regret over Anne's inches. The child she had learned to love had
64vanished somehow and here was this tall, serious-eyed girl of fifteen, with the thoughtful brows and the proudly poised
65little head, in her place. Marilla loved the girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer
66sorrowful sense of loss. And that night, when Anne had gone to prayer meeting with Diana, Marilla sat alone in the
67wintry twilight and indulged in the weakness of a cry. Matthew, coming in with a lantern, caught her at it and gazed at
68her in such consternation that Marilla had to laugh through her tears. "I was thinking about Anne," she explained.
69"She's got to be such a big girl--and she'll probably be away from us next winter. I'll miss her terrible."
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