But those of us who have some gumption should duly thank the Lord for it . '' `` Will you please define what gumption is , Aunt Jimsie ? '' asked Phil . `` No , I wo n't , young woman . Any one who has gumption knows what it is , and any one who has n't can never know what it is . So there is no need of defining it . '' The busy days flew by and examinations were over . Anne took High Honors in English . Priscilla took Honors in Classics , and Phil in Mathematics . Stella obtained a good all-round showing . Then came Convocation . `` This is what I would once have called an epoch in my life , '' said Anne , as she took Roy 's violets out of their box and gazed at them thoughtfully . She meant to carry them , of course , but her eyes wandered to another box on her table . It was filled with lilies-of-the-valley , as fresh and fragrant as those which bloomed in the Green Gables yard when June came to Avonlea . Gilbert Blythe 's card lay beside it . Anne wondered why Gilbert should have sent her flowers for Convocation . She had seen very little of him during the past winter . He had come to Patty 's Place only one Friday evening since the Christmas holidays , and they rarely met elsewhere . She knew he was studying very hard , aiming at High Honors and the Cooper Prize , and he took little part in the social doings of Redmond . Anne 's own winter had been quite gay socially .
She had seen a good deal of the Gardners ; she and Dorothy were very intimate ; college circles expected the announcement of her engagement XXXXX Roy any day .
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