The day went by like a dream . Anne could never clearly recall it afterwards . It almost seemed as if it were not she who was teaching but somebody else . She heard classes and worked sums and set copies mechanically . The children behaved quite well ; only two cases of discipline occurred . Morley Andrews was caught driving a pair of trained crickets in the aisle . Anne stood Morley on the platform for an hour and ... which Morley felt much more keenly ... confiscated his crickets . She put them in a box and on the way from school set them free in Violet Vale ; but Morley believed , then and ever afterwards , that she took them home and kept them for her own amusement . The other culprit was Anthony Pye , who poured the last drops of water from his slate bottle down the back of Aurelia Clay 's neck . Anne kept Anthony in at recess and talked to him about what was expected of gentlemen , admonishing him that they never poured water down ladies ' necks . She wanted all her boys to be gentlemen , she said . Her little lecture was quite kind and touching ; but unfortunately Anthony remained absolutely untouched . He listened to her in silence , with the same sullen expression , and whistled scornfully as he went out . Anne sighed ; and then cheered herself up by remembering that winning a Pye 's affections , like the building of Rome , was n't the work of a day . In fact , it was doubtful whether some of the Pyes had any affections to win ; but Anne hoped better things of Anthony , who looked as if he might be a rather nice boy if one ever got behind his sullenness . 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 XXXXX a Charlottetown store .
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