Charlie certainly did not take his dismissal as Anne 's imaginary rejected suitors did . Instead , he became angry , and showed it ; he said two or three quite nasty things ; Anne 's temper flashed up mutinously and she retorted with a cutting little speech whose keenness pierced even Charlie 's protective Sloanishness and reached the quick ; he caught up his hat and flung himself out of the house with a very red face ; Anne rushed upstairs , falling twice over Miss Ada 's cushions on the way , and threw herself on her bed , in tears of humiliation and rage . Had she actually stooped to quarrel with a Sloane ? Was it possible anything Charlie Sloane could say had power to make her angry ? Oh , this was degradation , indeed -- worse even than being the rival of Nettie Blewett ! `` I wish I need never see the horrible creature again , '' she sobbed vindictively into her pillows . She could not avoid seeing him again , but the outraged Charlie took care that it should not be at very close quarters . Miss Ada 's cushions were henceforth safe from his depredations , and when he met Anne on the street , or in Redmond 's halls , his bow was icy in the extreme . Relations between these two old schoolmates continued to be thus strained for nearly a year ! Then Charlie transferred his blighted affections to a round , rosy , snub-nosed , blue-eyed , little Sophomore who appreciated them as they deserved , whereupon he forgave Anne and condescended to be civil to her again ; in a patronizing manner intended to show her just what she had lost . One day Anne scurried excitedly into Priscilla 's room . `` Read that , '' she cried , tossing Priscilla a letter . `` It 's from Stella -- and she 's coming to Redmond next year -- and what do you think of her idea ? I think it 's a perfectly splendid one , if we can only carry it out . Do you suppose we can , Pris ? '' `` I 'll be better able to tell you when I find out what it is , '' said Priscilla , casting aside a Greek lexicon and taking up Stella 's letter . Stella Maynard had been one of their chums at Queen 's Academy and had been teaching school ever since . `` But I 'm going to give it up , Anne dear , '' she wrote , `` and go to college next year . As I took the third year at Queen 's I can enter the Sophomore year . I 'm tired of teaching in a back country school .
Some day I 'm going XXXXX write a treatise on ` The Trials of a Country Schoolmarm . '
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