Which line best illustrates the author's intent to show mr. phillips's ambivalence to anne's feelings? anne could run like a deer, however; run she did with the impish result that she overtook the boys at the door and was swept into the schoolhouse among them just as mr. phillips was in the act of hanging up his hat. mr. phillips's brief reforming energy was over; he didn't want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance. 'i assure you i did'—still with the sarcastic inflection which all the children, and anne especially, hated. it flicked on the raw. 'obey me at once.' when mr. phillips called the history class out anne should have gone, but anne did not move, and mr. phillips, who had been writing some verses 'to priscilla' before he called the class, was thinking about an obstinate rhyme still and never missed her.