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This meant getting a First Class teacher's license in one year instead of two, if they were successful; but it also meant much more and harder work.

Jane, Ruby, Josie, Charlie, and Moody Spurgeon, not being troubled with the stirrings of ambition, were content to take up the Second Class work.

Anne was conscious of a pang of loneliness when she found herself in a room with fifty other students, not one of whom she knew, except the tall, brown-haired boy across the room; and knowing him in the fashion she did, did not help her much, as she reflected pessimistically.

Yet she was undeniably glad that they were in the same class; the old rivalry could still be carried on, and Anne would hardly have known what to do if it had been lacking.

"I wouldn't feel comfortable without it," she thought.

"Gilbert looks awfully determined.

I suppose he's making up his mind, here and now, to win the medal.

What a splendid chin he has! I never noticed it before.

I do wish Jane and Ruby had gone in for First Class, too.

I suppose I won't feel so much like a cat in a strange garret when I get acquainted, though.

I wonder which of the girls here are going to be my friends.

It's really an interesting speculation.

Of course I promised Diana that no Queen's girl, no matter how much I liked her, should ever be as dear to me as she is; but I've lots of second-best affections to bestow.

I like the look of that girl with the brown eyes and the crimson waist.

She looks vivid and red-rosy; there's that pale, fair one gazing out of the window.

She has lovely hair, and looks as if she knew a thing or two about dreams.

I'd like to know them both-know them well-well enough to walk with my arm about their waists, and call them nicknames.

But just now I don't know them and they don't know me, and probably don't want to know me particularly.

Oh, it's lonesome!"

It was lonesomer still when Anne found herself alone in her hall bedroom that night at twilight.

She was not to board with the other girls, who all had relatives in town to take pity on them.

Miss Josephine Barry would have liked to board her, but Beechwood was so far from the Academy that it was out of the question; so Miss Barry hunted up a boarding-house, assuring Matthew and Marilla that it was the very place for Anne.

"The lady who keeps it is a reduced gentlewoman," explained Miss Barry.

"Her husband was a British officer, and she is very careful what sort of boarders she takes.

Anne will not meet with any objectionable persons under her roof.

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