I put in my Freshman and Sophomore years at Redmond two years ago . I 've been in Europe ever since . Now I 've come back to finish my Arts course . '' `` This is my Junior year , too , '' said Anne . `` So we are classmates as well as collegemates . I am reconciled to the loss of the years that the locust has eaten , '' said her companion , with a world of meaning in those wonderful eyes of his . The rain came steadily down for the best part of an hour . But the time seemed really very short . When the clouds parted and a burst of pale November sunshine fell athwart the harbor and the pines Anne and her companion walked home together . By the time they had reached the gate of Patty 's Place he had asked permission to call , and had received it . Anne went in with cheeks of flame and her heart beating to her fingertips . Rusty , who climbed into her lap and tried to kiss her , found a very absent welcome . Anne , with her soul full of romantic thrills , had no attention to spare just then for a crop-eared pussy cat . That evening a parcel was left at Patty 's Place for Miss Shirley . It was a box containing a dozen magnificent roses . Phil pounced impertinently on the card that fell from it , read the name and the poetical quotation written on the back . `` Royal Gardner ! '' she exclaimed . `` Why , Anne , I did n't know you were acquainted with Roy Gardner ! '' `` I met him in the park this afternoon in the rain , '' explained Anne hurriedly .
`` My umbrella turned inside out and he came XXXXX my rescue with his . ''
So at athwart for into of on since to with