She was talking about you . '' `` About me ? '' Anne looked rather scared . Then she flushed and exclaimed : `` Oh , I know what she was saying . I meant to tell you , Marilla , honestly I did , but I forgot . Miss Stacy caught me reading Ben Hur in school yesterday afternoon when I should have been studying my Canadian history . Jane Andrews lent it to me . I was reading it at dinner hour , and I had just got to the chariot race when school went in . I was simply wild to know how it turned out -- although I felt sure Ben Hur must win , because it would n't be poetical justice if he did n't -- so I spread the history open on my desk lid and then tucked Ben Hur between the desk and my knee . I just looked as if I were studying Canadian history , you know , while all the while I was reveling in Ben Hur . I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me , so reproachful-like . I ca n't tell you how ashamed I felt , Marilla , especially when I heard Josie Pye giggling . Miss Stacy took Ben Hur away , but she never said a word then . She kept me in at recess and talked to me . She said I had done very wrong in two respects . First , I was wasting the time I ought to have put on my studies ; and secondly , I was deceiving my teacher in trying to make it appear I was reading a history when it was a storybook instead . I had never realized until that moment , Marilla , that what I was doing was deceitful . I was shocked . I cried bitterly , and asked Miss Stacy to forgive me and I 'd never do such a thing again ; and I offered to do penance by never so much as looking at Ben Hur for a whole week , not even to see how the chariot race turned out . But Miss Stacy said she would n't require that , and she forgave me freely .
So I think it was n't very kind of her to come up here to you XXXXX it after all . ''
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