"All your life, Davy, you'll find yourself doing things you don't want
to do."

"I won't," said Davy flatly. "Catch me! I have to do things I don't want
to now 'cause you and Marilla'll send me to bed if I don't. But when I
grow up you can't do that, and there'll be nobody to tell me not to do
things. Won't I have the time! Say, Anne, Milty Boulter says his mother
says you're going to college to see if you can catch a man. Are you,
Anne? I want to know."

For a second Anne burned with resentment. Then she laughed, reminding
herself that Mrs. Boulter's crude vulgarity of thought and speech could
not harm her.

"No, Davy, I'm not. I'm going to study and grow and learn about many
things."

"What things?"

"'Shoes and ships and sealing wax
And cabbages and kings,'"

quoted Anne.

"But if you DID want to catch a man how would you go about it? I want
to know," persisted Davy, for whom the subject evidently possessed a
certain fascination.

"You'd better ask Mrs. Boulter," said Anne thoughtlessly. "I think it's