Everybody said `` Oh '' in horrified delight . Diana gasped . Ruby Gillis , who was inclined to be hysterical , began to cry . Tommy Sloane let his team of crickets escape him altogether while he stared open-mouthed at the tableau . Mr. Phillips stalked down the aisle and laid his hand heavily on Anne 's shoulder . `` Anne Shirley , what does this mean ? '' he said angrily . Anne returned no answer . It was asking too much of flesh and blood to expect her to tell before the whole school that she had been called `` carrots . '' Gilbert it was who spoke up stoutly . `` It was my fault Mr. Phillips . I teased her . '' Mr. Phillips paid no heed to Gilbert . `` I am sorry to see a pupil of mine displaying such a temper and such a vindictive spirit , '' he said in a solemn tone , as if the mere fact of being a pupil of his ought to root out all evil passions from the hearts of small imperfect mortals . `` Anne , go and stand on the platform in front of the blackboard for the rest of the afternoon . '' Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash . With a white , set face she obeyed . Mr. Phillips took a chalk crayon and wrote on the blackboard above her head . `` Ann Shirley has a very bad temper . Ann Shirley must learn to control her temper , '' and then read it out loud so that even the primer class , who could n't read writing , should understand it .
XXXXX stood there the rest of the afternoon with that legend above her .
Anne Diana Gilbert Gillis Phillips Shirley Sloane afternoon escape primer