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The Story Club Is Formed.
Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again.

To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.

Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert?
At first, as she told Diana, she did not really think she could.
"I'm positively certain, Diana, that life can never be quite the same again as it was in those olden days," she said mournfully, as if referring to a period of at least fifty years back.

"Perhaps after a while I'll get used to it, but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.