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1WITH the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana
2walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the
3fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips's had been under similar
4circumstances three years before. Diana looked back at the schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed
5deeply. "It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn't it?" she said dismally. "You oughtn't to feel half as
6badly as I do," said Anne, hunting vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief. "You'll be back again next winter, but I
7suppose I've left the dear old school forever--if I have good luck, that is." "It won't be a bit the same. Miss Stacy
8won't be there, nor you nor Jane nor Ruby probably. I shall have to sit all alone, for I couldn't bear to have another
9deskmate after you. Oh, we have had jolly times, haven't we, Anne? It's dreadful to think they're all over." Two big
10tears rolled down by Diana's nose. "If you would stop crying I could," said Anne imploringly. "Just as soon as I put
11away my hanky I see you brimming up and that starts me off again. As Mrs. Lynde says, 'If you can't be cheerful, be as
12cheerful as you can.' After all, I dare say I'll be back next year. This is one of the times I know I'm not going to
13pass. They're getting alarmingly frequent." "Why, you came out splendidly in the exams Miss Stacy gave." "Yes, but those
14exams didn't make me nervous. When I think of the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery feeling comes
15round my heart. And then my number is thirteen and Josie Pye says it's so unlucky. I am not superstitious and I know it
16can make no difference. But still I wish it wasn't thirteen." "I do wish I was going in with you," said Diana. "Wouldn't
17we have a perfectly elegant time? But I suppose you'll have to cram in the evenings." "No; Miss Stacy has made us
18promise not to open a book at all. She says it would only tire and confuse us and we are to go out walking and not think
19about the exams at all and go to bed early. It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt
20to be, I think. Prissy Andrews told me that she sat up half the night every night of her Entrance week and crammed for
21dear life; and I had determined to sit up at least as long as she did. It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me
22to stay at Beechwood while I'm in town." "You'll write to me while you're in, won't you?" "I'll write Tuesday night and
23tell you how the first day goes," promised Anne. "I'll be haunting the post office Wednesday," vowed Diana. Anne went to
24town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana haunted the post office, as agreed, and got her letter. "Dearest Diana"
25[wrote Anne], "Here it is Tuesday night and I'm writing this in the library at Beechwood. Last night I was horribly
26lonesome all alone in my room and wished so much you were with me. I couldn't 'cram' because I'd promised Miss Stacy not
27to, but it was as hard to keep from opening my history as it used to be to keep from reading a story before my lessons
28were learned. "This morning Miss Stacy came for me and we went to the Academy, calling for Jane and Ruby and Josie on
29our way. Ruby asked me to feel her hands and they were as cold as ice. Josie said I looked as if I hadn't slept a wink
30and she didn't believe I was strong enough to stand the grind of the teacher's course even if I did get through. There
31are times and seasons even yet when I don't feel that I've made any great headway in learning to like Josie Pye! "When
32we reached the Academy there were scores of students there from all over the Island. The first person we saw was Moody
33Spurgeon sitting on the steps and muttering away to himself. Jane asked him what on earth he was doing and he said he
34was repeating the multiplication table over and over to steady his nerves and for pity's sake not to interrupt him,
35because if he stopped for a moment he got frightened and forgot everything he ever knew, but the multiplication table
36kept all his facts firmly in their proper place! "When we were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us. Jane
37and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her. No need of the multiplication table for good, steady,
38sensible Jane! I wondered if I looked as I felt and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room. Then a
39man came in and began distributing the English examination sheets. My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled
40around as I picked it up. Just one awful moment--Diana, I felt exactly as I did four years ago when I asked Marilla if I
41might stay at Green Gables--and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began beating again--I forgot to say
42that it had stopped altogether!--for I knew I could do something with that paper anyhow. "At noon we went home for
43dinner and then back again for history in the afternoon. The history was a pretty hard paper and I got dreadfully mixed
44up in the dates. Still, I think I did fairly well today. But oh, Diana, tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I
45think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid. If I thought the
46multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till tomorrow morning. "I went down to see the other
47girls this evening. On my way I met Moody Spurgeon wandering distractedly around. He said he knew he had failed in
48history and he was born to be a disappointment to his parents and he was going home on the morning train; and it would
49be easier to be a carpenter than a minister, anyhow. I cheered him up and persuaded him to stay to the end because it
50would be unfair to Miss Stacy if he didn't. Sometimes I have wished I was born a boy, but when I see Moody Spurgeon I'm
51always glad I'm a girl and not his sister. "Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boardinghouse; she had just
52discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper. When she recovered we went uptown and had an ice cream.
53How we wished you had been with us. "Oh, Diana, if only the geometry examination were over! But there, as Mrs. Lynde
54would say, the sun will go on rising and setting whether I fail in geometry or not. That is true but not especially
55comforting. I think I'd rather it didn't go on if I failed! "Yours devotedly, "Anne" The geometry examination and all
56the others were over in due time and Anne arrived home on Friday evening, rather tired but with an air of chastened
57triumph about her. Diana was over at Green Gables when she arrived and they met as if they had been parted for years.
58"You old darling, it's perfectly splendid to see you back again. It seems like an age since you went to town and oh,
59Anne, how did you get along?" "Pretty well, I think, in everything but the geometry. I don't know whether I passed in it
60or not and I have a creepy, crawly presentiment that I didn't. Oh, how good it is to be back! Green Gables is the
61dearest, loveliest spot in the world." "How did the others do?" "The girls say they know they didn't pass, but I think
62they did pretty well. Josie says the geometry was so easy a child of ten could do it! Moody Spurgeon still thinks he
63failed in history and Charlie says he failed in algebra. But we don't really know anything about it and won't until the
64pass list is out. That won't be for a fortnight. Fancy living a fortnight in such suspense! I wish I could go to sleep
65and never wake up until it is over." Diana knew it would be useless to ask how Gilbert Blythe had fared, so she merely
66said: "Oh, you'll pass all right. Don't worry."
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