Far as I can make out from her story, Mr.Phillips has been carrying matters with a rather high hand.

But it would never do to say so to her.

I'll just talk it over with Rachel.

She's sent ten children to school and she ought to know something about it.

She'll have heard the whole story, too, by this time." Marilla found Mrs.Lynde knitting quilts as industriously and cheerfully as usual.
"I suppose you know what I've come about," she said, a little shamefacedly.
Mrs.Rachel nodded.
"About Anne's fuss in school, I reckon," she said.