I have to laugh when I think of Anne 's ` confession , ' although I suppose I should n't for it really was a falsehood . But it does n't seem as bad as the other would have been , somehow , and anyhow I 'm responsible for it . That child is hard to understand in some respects . But I believe she 'll turn out all right yet . And there 's one thing certain , no house will ever be dull that she 's in . '' CHAPTER XV . A Tempest in the School Teapot `` What a splendid day ! '' said Anne , drawing a long breath . `` Is n't it good just to be alive on a day like this ? I pity the people who are n't born yet for missing it . They may have good days , of course , but they can never have this one . And it 's splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by , is n't it ? '' `` It 's a lot nicer than going round by the road ; that is so dusty and hot , '' said Diana practically , peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy , toothsome , raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have . The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches , and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one 's best chum would have forever and ever branded as `` awful mean '' the girl who did it . And yet , when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you . The way Anne and Diana went to school WAS a pretty one . Anne thought those walks to and from school with Diana could n't be improved upon even by imagination . Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic ; but to go by Lover 's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic , if ever anything was . Lover 's Lane opened out below the orchard at Green Gables and stretched far up into the woods to the end of the Cuthbert farm . It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter .
Anne had named it Lover 's Lane before she had been a month XXXXX Green Gables .
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