He must have been greatly disappointed to have to give up his class , but they say he was perfectly sweet about it . Fee -- fi -- fo -- fum , Anne . I smell romance . Almost do I envy you , but not quite . After all , Roy Gardner is n't Jonas . '' `` You goose ! '' said Anne loftily . But she lay long awake that night , nor did she wish for sleep . Her waking fancies were more alluring than any vision of dreamland . Had the real Prince come at last ? Recalling those glorious dark eyes which had gazed so deeply into her own , Anne was very strongly inclined to think he had . Chapter XXVI Enter Christine The girls at Patty 's Place were dressing for the reception which the Juniors were giving for the Seniors in February . Anne surveyed herself in the mirror of the blue room with girlish satisfaction . She had a particularly pretty gown on . Originally it had been only a simple little slip of cream silk with a chiffon overdress . But Phil had insisted on taking it home with her in the Christmas holidays and embroidering tiny rosebuds all over the chiffon . Phil 's fingers were deft , and the result was a dress which was the envy of every Redmond girl . Even Allie Boone , whose frocks came from Paris , was wont to look with longing eyes on that rosebud concoction as Anne trailed up the main staircase at Redmond in it . Anne was trying the effect of a white orchid in her hair . Roy Gardner had sent her white orchids for the reception , and she knew no other Redmond girl would have them that night -- when Phil came in with admiring gaze .
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