I simply couldn't sleep last night for ever so long.

I just lay awake and imagined the concert over and over again.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs--it's so lovely to look back to them." Eventually, however, Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests.

To be sure, the concert left traces.

Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats, no longer sat at the same desk, and a promising friendship of three years was broken up.