She would much rather have gone to sleep than listen to Jane's confidences, which she was sure would bore her.

She had no prophetic inkling of what was coming.

Probably Jane was engaged, too; rumor averred that Ruby Gillis was engaged to the Spencervale schoolteacher, about whom all the girls were said to be quite wild.
"I'll soon be the only fancy-free maiden of our old quartet," thought Anne, drowsily.

Aloud she said, "Of course." "Anne," said Jane, still more solemnly, "what do you think of my brother Billy ?" Anne gasped over this unexpected question, and floundered helplessly in her thoughts.

Goodness, what DID she think of Billy Andrews?
She had never thought ANYTHING about him--round-faced, stupid, perpetually smiling, good-natured Billy Andrews.