We 've studied hard and Miss Stacy has drilled us thoroughly , but we may n't get through for all that . We 've each got a stumbling block . Mine is geometry of course , and Jane 's is Latin , and Ruby and Charlie 's is algebra , and Josie 's is arithmetic . Moody Spurgeon says he feels it in his bones that he is going to fail in English history . Miss Stacy is going to give us examinations in June just as hard as we 'll have at the Entrance and mark us just as strictly , so we 'll have some idea . I wish it was all over , Marilla . It haunts me . Sometimes I wake up in the night and wonder what I 'll do if I do n't pass . '' `` Why , go to school next year and try again , '' said Marilla unconcernedly . `` Oh , I do n't believe I 'd have the heart for it . It would be such a disgrace to fail , especially if Gil -- if the others passed . And I get so nervous in an examination that I 'm likely to make a mess of it . I wish I had nerves like Jane Andrews . Nothing rattles her . '' Anne sighed and , dragging her eyes from the witcheries of the spring world , the beckoning day of breeze and blue , and the green things upspringing in the garden , buried herself resolutely in her book . There would be other springs , but if she did not succeed in passing the Entrance , Anne felt convinced that she would never recover sufficiently to enjoy them . CHAPTER XXXII . The Pass List Is Out With the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy 's rule in Avonlea school . Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed . Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy 's farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips 's had been under similar circumstances three years before .
Diana looked back at the schoolhouse XXXXX the foot of the spruce hill and sighed deeply .
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