But Ruby Gillis knows a great deal about such matters because she has so many big sisters, and Mrs.Lynde says the Gillis girls have gone off like hot cakes.

Mr.Phillips goes up to see Prissy Andrews nearly every evening.
He says it is to help her with her lessons but Miranda Sloane is studying for Queen's too, and I should think she needed help a lot more than Prissy because she's ever so much stupider, but he never goes to help her in the evenings at all.

There are a great many things in this world that I can't understand very well, Matthew." "Well now, I dunno as I comprehend them all myself," acknowledged Matthew.
"Well, I suppose I must finish up my lessons.

I won't allow myself to open that new book Jane lent me until I'm through.

But it's a terrible temptation, Matthew.