You never know what to expect of them Americans , '' said Mrs. Andrews . Mrs. Andrews ' only acquaintance with the word `` genius '' was derived from the colloquial fashion of calling any eccentric individual `` a queer genius . '' She probably thought , with Mary Joe , that it meant a person with something wrong in his upper story . Back in the schoolroom Anne was sitting alone at her desk , as she had sat on the first day of school two years before , her face leaning on her hand , her dewy eyes looking wistfully out of the window to the Lake of Shining Waters . Her heart was so wrung over the parting with her pupils that for a moment college had lost all its charm . She still felt the clasp of Annetta Bell 's arms about her neck and heard the childish wail , `` I 'll NEVER love any teacher as much as you , Miss Shirley , never , never . '' For two years she had worked earnestly and faithfully , making many mistakes and learning from them . She had had her reward . She had taught her scholars something , but she felt that they had taught her much more ... lessons of tenderness , self-control , innocent wisdom , lore of childish hearts . Perhaps she had not succeeded in `` inspiring '' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils , but she had taught them , more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts , that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously , holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness , keeping aloof from all that savored of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity . They were , perhaps , all unconscious of having learned such lessons ; but they would remember and practice them long after they had forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the Roses . `` Another chapter in my life is closed , '' said Anne aloud , as she locked her desk . She really felt very sad over it ; but the romance in the idea of that `` closed chapter '' did comfort her a little . Anne spent a fortnight at Echo Lodge early in her vacation and everybody concerned had a good time . She took Miss Lavendar on a shopping expedition to town and persuaded her to buy a new organdy dress ; then came the excitement of cutting and making it together , while the happy Charlotta the Fourth basted and swept up clippings . Miss Lavendar had complained that she could not feel much interest in anything , but the sparkle came back to her eyes over her pretty dress . `` What a foolish , frivolous person I must be , '' she sighed . `` I 'm wholesomely ashamed to think that a new dress ... even it is a forget-me-not organdy ... should exhilarate me so , when a good conscience and an extra contribution to Foreign Missions could n't do it . '' Midway in her visit Anne went home to Green Gables for a day to mend the twins ' stockings and settle up Davy 's accumulated store of questions . In the evening she went down to the shore road to see Paul Irving .
As she passed XXXXX the low , square window of the Irving sitting room she caught a glimpse of Paul on somebody 's lap ; but the next moment he came flying through the hall .
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