`` Dear old Jane -- I 'm so glad , '' said Anne heartily . `` She deserves the good things of life . '' `` Oh , I ai n't saying anything against Jane . She 's a nice enough girl . But she is n't in the millionaire class , and you 'll find there 's not much to recommend that man but his money , that 's what . Mrs. Harmon says he 's an Englishman who has made money in mines but I believe he 'll turn out to be a Yankee . He certainly must have money , for he has just showered Jane with jewelry . Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big that it looks like a plaster on Jane 's fat paw . '' Mrs. Lynde could not keep some bitterness out of her tone . Here was Jane Andrews , that plain little plodder , engaged to a millionaire , while Anne , it seemed , was not yet bespoken by any one , rich or poor . And Mrs. Harmon Andrews did brag insufferably . `` What has Gilbert Blythe been doing to at college ? '' asked Marilla . `` I saw him when he came home last week , and he is so pale and thin I hardly knew him . '' `` He studied very hard last winter , '' said Anne . `` You know he took High Honors in Classics and the Cooper Prize . It has n't been taken for five years ! So I think he 's rather run down . We 're all a little tired . '' `` Anyhow , you 're a B.A. and Jane Andrews is n't and never will be , '' said Mrs. Lynde , with gloomy satisfaction .
A few evenings later Anne went down to see Jane , but the latter was away XXXXX Charlottetown -- `` getting sewing done , '' Mrs. Harmon informed Anne proudly .
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