It 's a hard lesson for cats and humans to learn . '' `` I 'm sorry to part with Rusty , '' said Anne regretfully , `` but it would be no use to take him to Green Gables . Marilla detests cats , and Davy would tease his life out . Besides , I do n't suppose I 'll be home very long . I 've been offered the principalship of the Summerside High School . '' `` Are you going to accept it ? '' asked Phil . `` I -- I have n't decided yet , '' answered Anne , with a confused flush . Phil nodded understandingly . Naturally Anne 's plans could not be settled until Roy had spoken . He would soon -- there was no doubt of that . And there was no doubt that Anne would say `` yes '' when he said `` Will you please ? '' Anne herself regarded the state of affairs with a seldom-ruffled complacency . She was deeply in love with Roy . True , it was not just what she had imagined love to be . But was anything in life , Anne asked herself wearily , like one 's imagination of it ? It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood repeated -- the same disappointment she had felt when she had first seen the chill sparkle instead of the purple splendor she had anticipated . `` That 's not my idea of a diamond , '' she had said . But Roy was a dear fellow and they would be very happy together , even if some indefinable zest was missing out of life . When Roy came down that evening and asked Anne to walk in the park every one at Patty 's Place knew what he had come to say ; and every one knew , or thought they knew , what Anne 's answer would be .
`` XXXXX is a very fortunate girl , '' said Aunt Jamesina .
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