Talk:Anne Shirley's engagement ring/@comment-2600:1700:4231:DB40:594E:BD01:898A:82C-20190510001603/@comment-3493059-20190510032010

I think Katherine Brooke was actually talking about Anne's engagement ring. Here is the context, from Anne of Windy Poplars, The Second Year, chapter 5:

''"How I hated you when you came first! Flaunting your circlet of pearls . . ."

"Katherine, I didn't 'flaunt' it!"

"Oh, I suppose not. That's just my natural hatefulness. But it seemed to flaunt itself . . . not that I envied you your beau . . . I've never wanted to be married . . . I saw enough of that with father and mother . . . but I hated your being over me when you were younger than I . . .''

To me it seems like Katherine is clearly referring to the ring because she talks about Anne's beau and Anne's engagement being a point of envy.