When school was dismissed and the children had gone Anne dropped wearily into her chair . Her head ached and she felt woefully discouraged . There was no real reason for discouragement , since nothing very dreadful had occurred ; but Anne was very tired and inclined to believe that she would never learn to like teaching . And how terrible it would be to be doing something you did n't like every day for ... well , say forty years . Anne was of two minds whether to have her cry out then and there , or wait till she was safely in her own white room at home . Before she could decide there was a click of heels and a silken swish on the porch floor , and Anne found herself confronted by a lady whose appearance made her recall a recent criticism of Mr. Harrison 's on an overdressed female he had seen in a Charlottetown store . `` She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare . '' The newcomer was gorgeously arrayed in a pale blue summer silk , puffed , frilled , and shirred wherever puff , frill , or shirring could possibly be placed . Her head was surmounted by a huge white chiffon hat , bedecked with three long but rather stringy ostrich feathers . A veil of pink chiffon , lavishly sprinkled with huge black dots , hung like a flounce from the hat brim to her shoulders and floated off in two airy streamers behind her . She wore all the jewelry that could be crowded on one small woman , and a very strong odor of perfume attended her . `` I am Mrs. DonNELL ... Mrs. H. B. DonNELL , '' announced this vision , `` and I have come in to see you about something Clarice Almira told me when she came home to dinner today . It annoyed me EXCESSIVELY . '' `` I 'm sorry , '' faltered Anne , vainly trying to recollect any incident of the morning connected with the Donnell children . `` Clarice Almira told me that you pronounced our name DONnell . Now , Miss Shirley , the correct pronunciation of our name is DonNELL ... accent on the last syllable . I hope you 'll remember this in future . '' `` I 'll try to , '' gasped Anne , choking back a wild desire to laugh . `` I know by experience that it 's very unpleasant to have one 's name SPELLED wrong and I suppose it must be even worse to have it pronounced wrong . '' `` Certainly it is .
And Clarice Almira also informed me XXXXX you call my son Jacob . ''
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