How we wished you had been with us.
"Oh, Diana, if only the geometry examination were over! But there, as Mrs.Lynde would say, the sun will go on rising and setting whether I fail in geometry or not.

That is true but not especially comforting.

I think I'd rather it didn't go on if I failed! "Yours devotedly, "Anne" The geometry examination and all the others were over in due time and Anne arrived home on Friday evening, rather tired but with an air of chastened triumph about her.

Diana was over at Green Gables when she arrived and they met as if they had been parted for years.
"You old darling, it's perfectly splendid to see you back again.

It seems like an age since you went to town and oh, Anne, how did you get along ?" "Pretty well, I think, in everything but the geometry.