`` I 'm afraid we must go , Paul , if we want to get home before dark . Miss Lavendar , I 'm going to invite myself to Echo Lodge for a whole week pretty soon . '' `` If you come for a week I 'll keep you for two , '' threatened Miss Lavendar . XXVIII The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace The last day of school came and went . A triumphant `` semi-annual examination '' was held and Anne 's pupils acquitted themselves splendidly . At the close they gave her an address and a writing desk . All the girls and ladies present cried , and some of the boys had it cast up to them later on that they cried too , although they always denied it . Mrs. Harmon Andrews , Mrs. Peter Sloane , and Mrs. William Bell walked home together and talked things over . `` I do think it is such a pity Anne is leaving when the children seem so much attached to her , '' sighed Mrs. Peter Sloane , who had a habit of sighing over everything and even finished off her jokes that way . `` To be sure , '' she added hastily , `` we all know we 'll have a good teacher next year too . '' `` Jane will do her duty , I 've no doubt , '' said Mrs. Andrews rather stiffly . `` I do n't suppose she 'll tell the children quite so many fairy tales or spend so much time roaming about the woods with them . But she has her name on the Inspector 's Roll of Honor and the Newbridge people are in a terrible state over her leaving . '' `` I 'm real glad Anne is going to college , '' said Mrs. Bell . `` She has always wanted it and it will be a splendid thing for her . '' `` Well , I do n't know . '' Mrs. Andrews was determined not to agree fully with anybody that day . `` I do n't see that Anne needs any more education . She 'll probably be marrying Gilbert Blythe , if his infatuation for her lasts till he gets through college , and what good will Latin and Greek do her then ? If they taught you at college how to manage a man there might be some sense in her going . ''
Mrs. Harmon XXXXX , so Avonlea gossip whispered , had never learned how to manage her `` man , '' and as a result the Andrews household was not exactly a model of domestic happiness .
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