`` It is all over , '' she informed Marilla . `` I shall never have another friend . I 'm really worse off than ever before , for I have n't Katie Maurice and Violetta now . And even if I had it would n't be the same . Somehow , little dream girls are not satisfying after a real friend . Diana and I had such an affecting farewell down by the spring . It will be sacred in my memory forever . I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said ` thou ' and ` thee . ' ` Thou ' and ` thee ' seem so much more romantic than ` you . ' Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I 'm going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life . Please see that it is buried with me , for I do n't believe I 'll live very long . Perhaps when she sees me lying cold and dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remorse for what she has done and will let Diana come to my funeral . '' `` I do n't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk , Anne , '' said Marilla unsympathetically . The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination . `` I 'm going back to school , '' she announced . `` That is all there is left in life for me , now that my friend has been ruthlessly torn from me . In school I can look at her and muse over days departed . '' `` You 'd better muse over your lessons and sums , '' said Marilla , concealing her delight at this development of the situation . `` If you 're going back to school I hope we 'll hear no more of breaking slates over people 's heads and such carryings on . Behave yourself and do just what your teacher tells you . ''
`` I 'll try to be a model pupil , '' agreed XXXXX dolefully .
Anne Barry Diana Marilla Maurice Violetta carryings days left slates