[00:02.01]5 Queen's College
[00:05.45]One day Marilla said,'Anne,your new teacher,Miss Stacy,spoke to me yesterday.
[00:15.54]She says you must study for the examinations for Queen's College in two years'time.
[00:22.83]Then if you do well,you can study at Queen's in Charlotte-town for a year,
[00:29.15]and after that you'll be a teacher!'
[00:32.33]'Oh Marilla!I'd love to be a teacher!But won't it be very expensive?'
[00:40.77]'That doesn't matter,Anne.
[00:43.75]When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago,
[00:47.43]we decided to look after you as well as we could.Of course we'll pay for you to study.'
[00:54.44]So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school,
[01:02.89]and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work.
[01:07.16]Diana didn't want to go to Queen's,so she went home early,but Gilbert stayed.
[01:14.23]He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies,
[01:21.65]because they both wanted to be first in the examination.
[01:26.16]Secretly,Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren't friends,but it was too late now.
[01:34.15]For two years Anne studied hard at school.
[01:39.55]She enjoyed learning,and Miss Stacy was pleased with her.
[01:44.32]But she didn't study all the time.
[01:47.27]In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends,
[01:51.84]or walked through the fields with Diana,or sat talking to Matthew.
[01:57.75]'Your Anne is a big girl now.She's taller than you,'
[02:04.03]Rachel Lynde told Marilla one day.
[02:07.23]'You're right,Rache!'said Marilla in surprise.
[02:11.26]'And she's a very good girl now,isn't she?She doesn't get into trouble these days.
[02:18.26]I'm sure she helps you a lot with the housework,Marilla.'
[02:22.29]'Yes,I don't know what I'd do without her,'said Marilla,smiling.
[02:28.34]'And look at her!Those beautiful grey eyes,and that red-brown hair!
[02:35.98]You know,Marilla,I thought you and Matthew made a mistake when you adopted her.
[02:43.47]But now I see I was wrong.You've looked after her very well.'
[02:49.48]'Well,thank you,Rachel,'replied Marilla,pleased.
[02:54.98]That evening,when Matthew came into the kitchen,he saw that his sister was crying.
[03:02.35]'What's the matter?'he asked,surprised.
[03:07.29]'You haven't cried since…well,I can't remember when.'
[03:13.39]'It's just…well,I was thinking about Anne,'said Marilla.
[03:21.23]'I'll…I'll miss her when she goes away.'
[03:27.33]'When she goes to Queen's,you mean?
[03:31.29]Yes,but she can come home at weekends,on the train.'
[03:36.11]'I'll still miss her,'said Marilla sadly.
[03:42.30]In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlotte-town to take their examinations.
[03:51.23]'Oh,I do hope that I've done well,'
[03:55.78]Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables.
[03:59.44]'The examinations were very difficult.
[04:04.32]And I've got to wait for three weeks before I know!Three weeks!I'll die!'
[04:12.78]Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert.
[04:16.49]But she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla.That was very important to her.
[04:23.94]Diana was the first to hear the news.
[04:29.04]She ran into the kitchen at Green Gables and shouted,
[04:33.90]'Look,Anne!It's in Father's newspaper!
[04:38.22]You're first…with Gilbert…out of all the students on the island!
[04:46.92]Oh,how wonderful!'Anne took the paper with shaking hands,
[04:53.95]and saw her name,at the top of the list of two hundred.She could not speak.
[05:02.79]'Well,now,I knew it,'said Matthew with a warm smile.
[05:09.87]'You've done well,I must say,Anne,'said Marilla,who was secretly very pleased.
[05:18.65]For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very busy.
[05:24.13]Anne needed new dresses to take to Charlottetown.
[05:29.18]The evening before she left,she put on one of her new dresses to show Matthew.
[05:35.75]Marilla watched the happy young face.
[05:40.07]She remembered the strange,thin little child,with her sad eyes,
[05:45.86]who arrived at Green Gables five years ago,and she started crying quietly.
[05:52.61]'Marilla,why are you crying?'asked Anne.
[05:58.73]'I was just thinking of you when you were a little girl,'said Marilla.
[06:07.56]'And…you're going away now…and I'll be lonely without you.'
[06:15.36]Anne took Marilla's face in her hands,'Marilla,nothing will change.
[06:24.21]Perhaps I'm bigger and older now,but I'll always be your little Anne.
[06:31.25]And I'll love you and Matthew and Green Gables more every day of my life.'
[06:39.17]Marilla could not say what she felt,like Anne,but she could show it.
[06:46.90]She put her arms round her girl and held her close to her heart.
[06:52.69]And so for the next year Anne lived in Charlottetown,and went to college every day.
[07:01.71]She sometimes came home at weekends,but she had to study hard.
[07:08.91]Some of her Avonlea friends were at Queen's too,and also her enemy,Gilbert Blythe.
[07:16.72]Anne saw that he often walked and talked with other girls.
[07:22.24]She felt sure that she and Gilbert could have some interesting conversations.
[07:27.61]But she didn't want to be the first to speak to him,and he never looked at her.
[07:34.59]There were examinations at the end of the college year,in May.
[07:40.94]Anne studied very hard for them.
[07:45.14]'I'd love to get the first place,'she thought.'Or perhaps I could get the Avery prize.'
[07:53.34]This was a prize for the student who was best at English writing,
[07:59.18]and Anne knew she was good at that.
[08:02.92]The Avery prize paid for a free place for four years at Redmond College,
[08:09.90]one of the best colleges in Canada.
[08:13.63]When news of the examinations came,Anne waited for her friends to tell her.
[08:20.30]She heard shouting.'It's Gilbert!He's the first!'She felt ill.
[08:27.90]But just then she heard another shout.'Anne Shirley's got the Avery!'
[08:34.35]And then all the girls were round her,laughing and shouting.
[08:39.00]'Matthew and Marilla will be pleased!'thought Anne.
[08:44.16]'Now I can go on studying,and they won't have to pay!'