Mr. Harrison rewarded this concession by going outdoors altogether to smoke in fine weather , and so mutual goodwill reigned . Anne had come over to ask Mrs. Harrison for some of her yellow dahlias . She and Diana were going through to Echo Lodge that evening to help Miss Lavendar and Charlotta the Fourth with their final preparations for the morrow 's bridal . Miss Lavendar herself never had dahlias ; she did not like them and they would not have suited the fine retirement of her old-fashioned garden . But flowers of any kind were rather scarce in Avonlea and the neighboring districts that summer , thanks to Uncle Abe 's storm ; and Anne and Diana thought that a certain old cream-colored stone jug , usually kept sacred to doughnuts , brimmed over with yellow dahlias , would be just the thing to set in a dim angle of the stone house stairs , against the dark background of red hall paper . `` I s ` pose you 'll be starting off for college in a fortnight 's time ? '' continued Mr. Harrison . `` Well , we 're going to miss you an awful lot , Emily and me . To be sure , Mrs. Lynde 'll be over there in your place . There ai n't nobody but a substitute can be found for them . '' The irony of Mr. Harrison 's tone is quite untransferable to paper . In spite of his wife 's intimacy with Mrs. Lynde , the best that could be said of the relationship between her and Mr. Harrison even under the new regime , was that they preserved an armed neutrality . `` Yes , I 'm going , '' said Anne . `` I 'm very glad with my head ... and very sorry with my heart . '' `` I s ` pose you 'll be scooping up all the honors that are lying round loose at Redmond . '' `` I may try for one or two of them , '' confessed Anne , `` but I do n't care so much for things like that as I did two years ago . What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it . I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself . '' Mr. Harrison nodded . `` That 's the idea exactly .
That 's what college ought XXXXX be for , instead of for turning out a lot of B.A. 's , so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ai n't room for anything else .
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