But that would mean Gilbert Blythe's triumph on the morrow.

Anne turned her back on the clock shelf and tried to imagine it wasn't there.
"Matthew, did you ever study geometry when you went to school ?" "Well now, no, I didn't," said Matthew, coming out of his doze with a start.
"I wish you had," sighed Anne, "because then you'd be able to sympathize with me.

You can't sympathize properly if you've never studied it.

It is casting a cloud over my whole life.

I'm such a dunce at it, Matthew." "Well now, I dunno," said Matthew soothingly.