You didn't know just how I felt about it, but you see Matthew did.

Matthew understands me, and it's so nice to be understood, Marilla." Anne was too excited to do herself justice as to lessons that morning in school.

Gilbert Blythe spelled her down in class and left her clear out of sight in mental arithmetic.

Anne's consequent humiliation was less than it might have been, however, in view of the concert and the spare-room bed.

She and Diana talked so constantly about it all day that with a stricter teacher than Mr.Phillips dire disgrace must inevitably have been their portion.
Anne felt that she could not have borne it if she had not been going to the concert, for nothing else was discussed that day in school.