ANNE OF GREEN GABLES PART TWO

Miss Stacey: Would you join us in the class now? And how about you? Are you going to join our class?

Miss Stacey: Good morning class. Please, sit down. I am your new teacher Miss Stacey. I want to begin by saying that I think it’s most unfair that the teacher always has to ask all the questions. And I’m hoping that you’ll be enthusiastic enough about my classes, that you’ll pepper me with questions. I shall do my very best to live up to the standards you are used to under Mr. Phillips, but I caution you, I am unfailingly strict about punctuality and attention in class. However, I do believe that the best teacher serves as a guide, and I promise you that if you are willing to put yourself under my guidance, I shall do my utmost to help you form strong ideals, ideals which will be the foundation of your future lives. I want to look back on this class as being the brightest, the most imaginative, the most committed students on Prince Edward Island.

OUTSIDE EDUCATION

Kids: Let’s go.

Miss Stacey: I want to go over there and look at that tree. Come on. Oops. There we go. This way. Can you see? Can anyone hear? Thank you. Look at that!

Kids: Oh!

Miss Stacey: … and Andrea. Join the group. Ok, touch your toes. Touch your toes.

AVONLEA SCHOOL

Miss Stacey: Please remain after class Anne. I’d like to have a few words with you.

Miss Stacey: I’m disappointed in you Anne. Reading novels during your geometry class is a misuse of your time. Moreover, it’s a deception.

Anne: Can you ever forgive me Miss Stacy? I promise I won’t even look at “Ben Hur” for a whole week as penance. Not even to see how the chariot race turned out.

Miss Stacey: I’m returning this to you because I know I can trust you and not to let it happen again. Oh Anne, you know I want to encourage you to read literature, to develop your imagination. It’s a precious gift, but not during geometry class.

Anne: Miss Stacey, I knew you were sympathetic to the human plight the minute we met.

Miss Stacey: I understand you have a plight of your own.

Anne: Diana Barry. We were bosom friends, but, alas, her mother has refused to let her even speak to me.

Miss Stacey: Yes, I’ve had a visit from Mrs. Barry.

Anne: How do you stand the social persecution from being an orphan. It is a terrible injustice to be falsely accused.

Miss Stacey: Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth Anne. You see it frightens them, so they put up walls to protect themselves from it. But we must bear in mind that all their trials and tribulations that pop-up in our lives, well they serve a very useful purpose. They build character, as long as we can hold on to the lessons we’ve learned from our mistakes. Remember, you can always start everything afresh tomorrow.

Anne: That is a tremendous consolation Miss Stacy.

Miss Stacey: Hmmm?

Anne: Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it.

Miss Stacey: Well, with no mistakes in it yet. As far as the truth goes, don’t lose heart. Diana will always be your friend, no matter what anyone accuses you of. In the end the truth will set you free.

Anne: The truth will set you free.

GREEN GABLES KITCHEN

Marilla: Did you bring the pudding?

Anne: Excuse me for minute Marilla, there’s something I’ve got to check outside for a moment.

Marilla: What do you have to check? Oh, that girl.

Anne: Perhaps we should have the plum pudding without the sauce.

Anne: I forgot to put the cheesecloth over it last night. I was imagining I was a nun on my way to the altar to take the vows.

Marilla: Well, then you’re lucky the mice had sense enough to stay away from it. Ah, goodness gracious. Who could that be now at this hour just before supper? Ah, Miss Stacey!

Miss Stacey: Good evening Miss Cuthbert. Well, I was just over at the Barry’s, and well, I thought I would take the opportunity just to drop by.

Marilla: What has she done now? I hope this gafuffle with Diana barry hasn’t made her neglect her studies.

Miss Stacey: No, no, no, not at all, quite the contrary. Anne is doing simply excellent work, which is why I’m here. I wondered would you permit her to join a special class. You see I intend to give extra classes after school for those students you intend to take the entrance exams at Queens.

Marilla: The college in Charlottetown? Our Anne?

Miss Stacey: She’s bright and energetic, and, well, very determined I think that she could pass for a teacher or even go on to the university.

Marilla: Well, I’ve always thought a girl should learn to make a living. It’s a very insecure world. Well, of course she can join the class if she wants to.

Miss Stacey: Well, that is wonderful.

Marilla: Why don’t you stay for, ah, supper. I’m just about to set the table.

Miss Stacey: Oh no, no, really, I couldn’t impose.

Marilla: Oh, stuff n’ nonsense. You wouldn’t be imposing at all, and then you could tell Anne all about it yourself.

Miss Stacey: Well, all right.

DINING ROOM

Miss Stacey; That was a delicious dinner Miss Cuthbert.

Marilla: Ah, thank you Miss Stacy. Anne actually made this plum pudding herself.

Miss Stacey: Oh, really? Well, I can hardly wait to taste it.

Marilla: Oh please do!

Anne: Don’t eat it Miss Stacy!!!

Marilla: Anne. What is wrong with you?

Anne: A mouse drowned in the sauce Marilla. I was working up the courage to tell you when Miss Stacey came in.

Marilla: Anne, if you intend to go for a teacher, you are going to have to give up your feather-brained ways. You’re not interested in anything but your silly day dreams and nothing else.

Anne: I really am trying to overcome my faults, Marilla. I know I chatter on far too much. If you only knew how many things I want to say and don’t. Give me some credit. Boy, I suppose it was a romantic way to perish, for a mouse.

AVONLEA SCHOOL

Miss Stacey: Here you are Sarah.

Sarah: Thank you.

Miss Stacey: Good afternoon, Diana.

Diana: Thank you Miss Stacy.

Anne: Aren’t you going to be in the Queen’s class?

Diana: Mother says I should concentrate on learning to run a household, instead of pouring over books so much.

Anne: Oh Diana, I feel as if you’ve tasted the bitterness of death.

Miss Stacey: Well then class, let us start with the Latin verbs. We’ll move on to the algebra after that. Please open your books at page three.

GREEN GABLES

Marilla: Now be sure you get Matthew’s meals on time and I shall be home tomorrow before supper.

Anne: Have a lovely time. Do you think you’ll meet the Prime Minister?

Marilla: Ah, if Rachel has anything to do with it, we’ll more than meet him. He shall be subjected to a lecture on the ills of Prince Edward Island, the country, and the world, in that order. Be a good girl.

Anne: Bye.

LIVING ROOM

Anne: Mrs. Lind says the country is going to the dogs the way the government runs things. Do you think that’s true Matthew?

Matthew: Rachel Lind is a Grit.

Anne: She says, if women were allowed to vote we would soon see a blessed change.

Matthew: Hmm.

Anne: Which way do you vote Matthew?

Matthew: I vote conservative.

Anne: And I’m a conservative too. I’m glad, because Gil, um, I mean, some of the boys at the school are Grits. Ruby Gillis says when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics. Ruby Gillis knows all about courting because she has three older sisters. Did you ever go courting Matthew?

Matthew: Well, I couldn’t do it without talking to a girl.

Anne: Well, I’m sure there were many broken hearts as a result.

Matthew: Oh, go on.

Anne: Ruby Gillis says that when she grows up she wants to have a line of boys on a string and make them crazy for her. I’d rather have one in his rightful mind. There are some things in this world that even I cannot hope to understand.

Matthew: Well, I don’t know if I could comprehend all of them either.

Anne: Oh, Diana!

Diana: My sister is awful sick with the croup and Mary-Joe is babysitting and she doesn’t know what to do and we can’t get word to Mother and Father because they’re at the Bradley’s still.

Anne: Don’t worry Diana, Matthew will get the doctor. We’re such kindred spirits I can read his thoughts.

Diana: I’m scared. Help me.

Anne: Get my coat Diana. Stop crying Diana, I know exactly what to do for the croup. If you can give her an expectorant…

SNOW SCENE AND THEN BARRY’S HOUSE

Anne: Mrs. Hammond had three sets of twins, all had croup regularly, Diana, and it was me who treated them.

BARRY’S HOME IN THE BEDROOM

Anne: She’s pretty bad, but I’ve seen worse. Put some wood on the stove and pour some water. I don’t mean to hurt your feelings Mary Joe, but you might have thought of that earlier if you had any imagination. Diana get a fresh change of clothes and I’ll keep administrating the ipecak. Let’s get rid of the last ipecak. Mary-Joe, look after the water. We’ll change the mustard plaster.

Anne: I gave her every last drop of ipecak, but it wasn’t ‘til she coughed up the phelgm that she really began to improve. You must imagine my relief doctor. Some things cannot be expressed in words.

Doctor: Would have been to late by the time I got here. You saved this little baby’s life.

ON A SLED GOING HOME

Anne: I can’t go to school because I couldn’t keep my eyes open. But I’d hate to stay at home…Gil would…

Matthew: Giddy up.

GREEN GABLES

Anne: Good morning.

Marilla: Afternoon’s more like it Anne. You slept the day away. Though no one’s ever been more entitled to it, hear?

Anne: Did you meet the Prime Minister? What does he look like?

Marilla: Well, he certainly didn’t become Prime Minister on account of his looks, but he’s a fine speaker. He shook my hand.

Anne: How exciting! I can just imagine the thrill of the rally with all those people.

Marilla: Mrs. Barry was over here before, begging to see you, but I wasn’t about to wake you. You’re invited to dinner. I should imagine “humble pie” is on the menu.

Anne: Marilla, may I go right now. I am aching to see Diana.

BARRY’S HOUSE

Mrs. Barry: I’m so ashamed Anne. You saved my baby’s life.

Anne: I harbor no hard feelings towards you Mrs. Barry, but I hope you believe me once and for all that I never meant to intoxicate Diana.

Mrs. Barry: Of course I believe you child. I’m so sorry I ever doubted you.

Diana: Mother says you can come with us to the Christmas Ball at Carmadie.

Mrs. Barry: We’d be honored if you’d stay the night with Diana as well. It’s a very special occasion and you would be our guest of honor.

GREEN GABLES

Marilla: You can calm down because you’re not going. For a woman so adamantly against current wine, I’m surprised she’s allowing Diana to go. The Ball is for adults, not children.

Anne: But Marilla, it’s Christmas. The Minister is going to be there. He’s giving an address and that’s almost the same as a sermon.

Marilla: You heard what I said and you know what I meant by it. There will be plenty of Ball’s when you’re older.

Anne: But I was invited to spend the night. I’m to be the guest of honor.

Marilla: Ah well, that’s just an honor you’ll have to forego eh? Now off to bed.

Anne: This is a wound I shall bear forever.

Matthew: You’d ‘a been proud of her presence of mind, the way she saved that Barry baby. Why don’t you let her go?

Marilla: Remember Matthew, who we agreed would be raising her? Mrs. Barry just wants to ease her conscience and I’m not going to allow it, and no amount of huffing and puffing from you is going to change my mind. You’ll let her go to the moon if she had the notion. Well, I don’t approve of Balls. Just fill her head with nonsense.

Matthew: The fact is Marilla you never went to a Ball. The fact is this whole idea has got you scared to death. That little girl ought to have all the kindness we can give her. We got no call to raise her as chilless as we was. And it ain’t interfering to have an opinion. Besides, it’s Christmas. You ought to let her go.

KITCHEN

Marilla: All right, you can go. This is all Matthew’s doing though. I wash my hands of it. If you get overheated and catch pneumonia, blame Matthew.

Anne: Marilla, I dreamt last night that I arrived at the Ball in puffed sleeves and everyone was overcome by my regal entrance.

Ma rilla: Regal my eye. You’re dripping greasy, dirty water all over my clean floor. And if I have to listen to any more of this, I’ll just change my mind, that’s what I’ll do.

GENERAL STORE

Shopkeeper: Well, Mr. Cuthbert, what can I do for you today?

Matthew: Well now, I’d like ah, have you got any… do you have any garden rakes?

Shopkeeper: Well now, we don’t carry garden rakes in the store in december, but I’ll check upstairs, we may have one or two in storage. The very last one.

Matthew: Ah, that’s…that’s nice.

Shopkeeper: Will there be anything else Mr. Cuthbert?

Matthew: Well, since you suggested, ah, oh, I might want to, ah, look at some hayseed.

Shopkeeper: Oh, we don’t carry hayseed ‘til spring Mr. Cuthbert.

Matthew: Oh, certainly, of course.

Shopkeeper: That’ll be 75 cents for the rake Mr. Cuthbert.

Matthew: While I’m here, ah, I might want to look at, ah, if it wouldn’t be too much trouble for you, ah…

Shopkeeper: Yes.

Matthew: Sugar.

Shopkeeper: Sugar?

Matthew: Some sugar!

Shopkeeper: Oh! White or brown?

Matthew: Oh, what would you say?

Shopkeeper: Well, we have some nice brown sugar in stock Mr. Cuthbert. How much_ would you like?

Matthew: Well, ah, would twenty pounds (lbs.) be enough?

Shopkeeper: Yes. I’m sure twenty lbs. will be enough. That’ll be $1.00.

Matthew: I need a dress, with puffed sleeves.

Shopkeeper: Puffed sleeves?

Matthew: For Anne!

Shopkeeper: Landsakes, Mr. Cuthbert! Why didn’t you say so in the first place? Now you just come with me to the window.

GREEN GABLES

Anne: Oh, it’s so beautiful!

Marilla: Brown sugar indeed. I knew Matthew was up to some foolishness.

Anne: Marilla, look at the puffs!

Marilla: They’re ridiculous. You’ll have to turn sideways to get through the door.

Anne: It can’t be real.

Marilla: I hope you’re satisfied young lady. I don’t want you strutting around here as vain as a Peacock. So, now you go upstairs at once and take that off.

Anne: I have to thank Matthew.

Marilla: 20 lbs. of brown sugar.

BARN

Matthew: I should have waited ‘til Christmas, but, I thought you might want to wear it to the Ball. Don’t you like it?

Anne: Like it? It’s more exquisite than any dress that I ever could have imagined.

Matthew: Puffed sleeves.

Anne: Puffiest in the world. You’re a man of impeccable taste Matthew.

Matthew: You don’t want to get your dress dirty.

BALL

Mrs. Barry: Anne, Diana, enjoy yourselves today, all right.

: Martha, Elizabeth, how are you?

Anne: I am positively certain this will spoil everyday life forever.

Diana: In three years I’m going to wear my hair like Alice Bell. She’s only seventeen and I think she looks ridiculous. I’m going to wait until I’m eighteen.

Diana: My, my, doesn’t Gilbert look dashing tonight.

Anne: Gilbert? I hadn’t noticed him.

Diana: It’s too bad you’ve been so awful to him. He might have asked you to dance.

Anne: If I wanted to ask, which I don’t he certainly would. Gilbert Blythe would stand on his head if I asked him to.

Diana: Ah, he looked right at you again. I bet you couldn’t get him to dance with you.

Anne: All right Diana, if you insist.

Gilbert: It’s good to see you again. Say hello to that brother of yours.

Anne: Good evening Gilbert Blythe.

Gilbert: Tell your brother I’ll see him at the toboggan party.

Girl: Have a glass of punch?

Anne: Thank you.

Gilbert: Diana, you look wonderful tonight, Merry Christmas.

Diana: Merry Christmas to you too Gilbert.

Anne: How could you wish that person a Merry Christmas?

Diana: I gather that person didn’t ask you to dance after all. Well, would you give me the pleasure instead?

Anne: Thank you. I believe I will.

BARRY’S HOME

Diana: I think Gilbert took your dance card.

Anne: Oh no, such a romantic gesture would be utterly beyond his imagination.

Diana: Well then who, Josie Pie?

Anne: A secret admirer, obviously.

Diana: We should get to bed before mother comes down. She said we could sleep in the spare bedroom.

Anne: Ah, isn’t it exciting! All right then, I’ll race you to see who gets the warm side of the bed. Ready, get set, go.

SPARE BEDROOM

Aunt Joe: Ah, Merciful heavens! What is the meaning of this?

Diana: Aunt Josephine! Mother said you weren’t coming until tomorrow?

Aunt Joe: Is that any reason to try to kill me in my sleep? Diana Barry you are the worst behaved girl I have ever know. Your parents will certainly hear about this outrage.

Anne: It’s all my fault Ma’am. It was my idea to race.

Diana: We didn’t know you were in here. Honestly we didn’t. Please don’t tell my mother, Aunt Joe, we’re terribly sorry.

Aunt Joe: I most certainly will tell her. She’ll want to know the reason why I changed my mind about the music lessons I was going to pay for. You need a few lessons in behavior more than in music young lady. Now get out of here and let a poor old woman get some sleep.

BEDROOM

Diana: That’s really dreadful Anne. I always wanted music lessons. She’s the only one in the family who’s rich enough to pay for them.

Anne: Explain tomorrow. Don’t worry Diana.

Diana: She’ll probably leave in a big huff first thing in the morning. I don’t care. She’s only father’s great Aunt. We’ve never been close. It was funny wasn’t it? Did you see the look on her face?

Anne: Auoo!

Diana: Shh!

Anne: I won’t have you miss your music lessons just because of me. I’ll have to have a talk with her.

Diana: Anne, don’t. She’ll eat you alive.

Anne: I’ve had lots of practice making apologies before. Just leave it to me.

Diana: All right.

DRAWING ROOM

Anne: Ahem.

Aunt Joe: What? Come to finish the job?

Anne: Sorry, I startled you Ma’am.

Aunt Joe: Who are you?

Anne: Anne of Green Gables and I’ve come to confess.

Aunt Joe: Confess what? I’m not interested in the confessions of assassins who masquerade as little girls.

Anne: It was all my doing Miss Barry. Diana would never think of such a thing as racing to a bed and jumping on it. She’s far too lady-like, whereas I am merely an orphan who doesn’t know any better. So I think you ought to forgive Diana and let her have her music lessons back.

Aunt Joe: Oh, you do, do you?

Anne: Yes Ma’am.

Aunt Joe: Do you have any idea what it’s like to be awakened from the few hours of precious sleep granted an old woman in a strange bed by two ferocious, wild girls landing on her head?

Anne: I don’t know. I can imagine it must have been terrifying in the extreme. And if you had any imagination you could put yourself in our place.

Aunt Joe: I haven’t been in your place for 47 years, thank you very much.

Anne: Haven’t you any imagination Mrs. Barry?

Aunt Joe: At my age imagination is a threat to life.

Anne: Well, we honestly didn’t know you were in there, and you scared us half to death. You should just imagine how exciting it was going to be for me, to sleep in a spare bedroom, reserved for important company such as yourself. As it was I had to sleep with Milly-May, and you don’t know how she kicks. Mine was the sleep of the bitterly disappointed Miss Barry. I was forced to lie awake all night with the knowledge that I had cost Diana her career as a world famous concert pianist.

Aunt Joe: I suppose your claim to sympathy is as valid as mine. Do you know what I am composing here, Anne of Green Gables?

Anne: I sure I don’t Miss Barry.

Aunt Joe: It’s a note expressing my outrage to Diana’s parents. The trouble is, I don’t feel outrage anymore. So, what do you suggest?

Anne: Perhaps if Diana apologized, which she is too frightened to do at this moment.

Aunt Joe: I have a better idea. Suppose I reinstate her music lessons in exchange for…you coming to visit me in Charlottetown on occasion.

Anne: Me, Miss Barry?

Aunt Joe: Yes, you Anne of Green Gables. Diana can come along as well. You amuse me. Precious little in this world amuses me at my age.

Anne: You seem a very interesting old lady to me. You’re not an old ogre at all are you? Oh my, I didn’t mean that. Excuse me Miss Barry.

Aunt Joe: I most certainly am an old ogre and don’t you let on any different. Will you come and see me? The go tell Diana she can be a concert pianist after all.

Anne: Thank you Miss Barry. We appreciate you making up your mind so swiftly.

Aunt Joe: Good day, Anne girl.

HALLWAY

Anne: You wouldn’t think so to look at her, but she is definitely a kindred spirit Diana.

FIELD, BEACH AND THE BOAT

Diana: Please find enclosed two silver bangles, one for you and one for the Anne girl. I want to become better acquainted with you both. If you come to town for a visit, I will put you up in my very sparest of spare rooms. Yours very truly, aunt Josephine Barry.

Anne: You know Diana, kindred spirits aren’t as scarce as I used to think.

AVONLEA SCHOOL

Miss Stacey: Anne do you intend to daydream during the Charlottetown exam?

HORSE AND CART

Diana: Don’t worry, in two days it will be over.

Anne: This is one of those rare moments when not even my imagination can solve any anxiety.

AUNT JOE’S HOUSE IN CHARLOTTETOWN

Diana: Hi, Aunt Joe.

Aunt Joe: Diana! So you’ve come to see me at last you Anne girl. Mercy me you’re both so much better looking than you used to be.

Anne: I’m sure Diana is. My hair is still red.

Aunt Joe: Come in, come in. John, take the bags right upstairs. Wipe your feet.

John: Aunt Joe.

Aunt Joe: You must be tired from your trip. Nancy will look after you. I suppose you want to cram for your exam tonight.

Anne: Miss Stacey made me promise not to open a book, so I won’t get the jitters.

Aunt Joe: In that case, we’ll have a leisurely dinner after you’ve freshened up. And following your exam tomorrow, I’ve planned a tremendous surprise. Tell John that I will have my tea with him in the Palm room.

Diana: I’ve never been here before. I didn’t know she was this rich.

Anne: No wonder she has so little imagination. That’s one consolation about being poor. You have to dream all of this up.

BEDROOM

Diana: I wish I could go with you or help you somehow Anne.

Anne: Don’t make me nervous. I’m trying to imagine away this horrible fluttery feeling around my heart.

Diana: I have faith in you. You’ll pass all right.

Anne: I’d rather not pass at all than to come out somewhere in the middle. Matthew, Marilla, Miss Stacey, everyone has such great hopes for me. It would be such a disgrace if Gilbert came first. I suppose I’d settle for beating Gilbert Blythe if I had to.

Diana: Keep thinking about Gilbert then.

Anne: Yes, Gilbert.

EXAM ROOM

Man: Please do not touch your papers until all the examinations have been distributed, or they will be discounted completely. You may now begin.

OUTSIDE EXAM ROOM

Anne: Ah, for one awful moment I felt exactly like I did three years ago when I asked Marilla if I was to stay at Green Gables.

Miss Stacey: You had me worried for a moment. I could see you turning green. Oh, but I knew you’d pull through.

Anne: Well, pass or fail, I’m going to miss you tremendously Miss Stacey.

Miss Stacey: I want to wish you all the luck in the world Anne Shirley. If anyone deserves to be successful it’s you. I’ll be watching out for you, even from Halifax.

Anne: So you really are going to leave Avonlea?

Miss Stacey: I have my own little set of troubles. Oh, nothing to worry about. Remember, true friends are always together in spirit.

Anne: Thank you Miss Stacey, for giving all of us the chance to make something of ourselves. Someone else wants to say goodbye.

Miss Stacey: I want to remind you of something you once told me: Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

RESTAURANT

Diana: I was born for city life.

Aunt Joe: And what’s your opinion Anne?

Anne: I hadn’t thought seriously about it until now. I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I’d like it for a while, but in the end I’d still prefer the sound of the wind in the furs across the brook, more than the tinkling of crystal.

Aunt Joe: What do you think now Anne?

Anne: I was wrong. I don’t see how I could ever return to common life after this Miss Barry.

AUNT JOE’S HOUSE

Anne: Madame Selitzky had a definitive alabaster brow Diana.

Diana: Did you see Alice Bell there, parading around like she had an alabaster brow?

Anne: If I had Alice Bell’s crooked nose, I wouldn’t. Oh no, I shouldn’t have said. That’s uncharitable. I was comparing it to my own nose and that is vanity. Someone complemented me on my nose long ago, and I’m afraid I thought about it far too much ever since.

Aunt Joe: I should hire you as my court jester Anne girl.

Anne: I wasn’t meaning to be funny.

Aunt Joe: Well, I hope you both enjoyed the matinee.

Diana: Oh, immensely.

Aunt Joe: And you Anne?

Anne: Unforgettably.

Aunt Joe: Then you must stay with me when you come back and study.

Diana: Maybe I’ll come stay with you too.

Aunt Joe: You’d both be welcome. I haven’t had so much fun since… well, never mind how long since. I thought Marilla Cuthbert was an old fool when I heard she’d adopted a little orphan girl, but I see now which of us was the old fool.

OUTSIDE HOUSE

Diana: Bye, Aunt Joe.

Aunt Joe: Bye Girls.

Anne: Bye Miss Barry. Thank you for everything.

Aunt Joe: It was lovely having you here.

Girls: Bye, bye.

HORSE CART

Mr. Barry: Hello there Gil. You’re on your way home too?

Gilbert: Yes, sir.

Mr. Barry: Well, I wish we could offer you a ride.

Gilbert: Oh no, that’s all right. I’m meeting Moody at the station. Anne, I wish you luck on the exam. I hope you come in first, you worked hard.

Anne: Thank you, but I’m sure the first will go to you.

Gilbert: Well, I guess we’ll see won’t we?

RIVER

Anne: Ruby, you be Elaine, you’re the only one who has golden hair.

Ruby: I couldn’t lie down pretend I was dead. I’d die of fright, honest.

Anne: A red-haired person cannot play the Lily Maid. Tennyson would never approve.

Diana: You’re complexion is just as fair as Ruby’s. Anyway, your hair is darker now than just plain old red.

Anne: Really?

Jane: I’d say it’s definitely auburn and that’s sort of close to blonde.

Anne: Well all right. It isn’t authentic. Lay the piano cover over me.

Jane: Gosh, she really looks dead.

Ruby: I’m frightened. Mrs. Ruby says acting is a sin.

Anne: Ruby, keep quiet. You’re spoiling the affect. Besides, this is hundreds of years before Mrs. Lind was born. Diana, you arrange all of this. This is ridiculous for Elaine to be talking when she’s supposed to be dead.

Diana: All right. Jane, the flowers. Now she’s ready. Anne, for Gosh sakes, smile a little. It says here Elaine lay as though she smiled. That’s better. All right ladies, let us send her to a watery grave.

Anne: There she weaveth by night and day

A magic web with colors gay

She’s heard a whisper say

A curse is on her if she stay

To look down on Camelot

And at the closing of the day

The broad stream bore her far away

As the boat had wound along

They heard her singing her last song

The Lady of Shallott.

FIELDS

Girls: Anne is drowning. We killed her. My God, we have to get help! Anne’s drowning!

BRIDGE ON RIVER

Gilbert: Anne Shirley, what in heck are you doing here?

Anne: Fishing for lake trout.

BARRY’S HOME

Diana: Nobody’s home.

Ruby: It’s to late. She’s drowned and we’re murderers.

Diana: Matthew, come on!

BOAT

Anne: Well, if you must know. I was in Diana’s skiff, but it sprang a leak and I had to climb onto the piling for safety. Now if you’ll be so kind as to row me to the landing.

Gilbert: Oh, I see, then the fact is, I rescued you.

Anne: Help is on the way and I was calmly waiting for it.

Gilbert: You’re most welcome.

Anne: I’m grateful for your assistance Mr. Blythe, even though it was not required. Now if you excuse me I have to find my friends. They are likely overcome with fear for my life.

Gilbert: No, Anne, wait. Wait a minute. I was just down at the post office to see if the Queen’s results have been printed.

Anne: Congratulations on coming first Gilbert. I’m sure you’re very proud of your achievements.

Gilbert: Wait a minute you ninny. We tied for first place, you and I. I figured you’d have it for sure. We all passed, our entire class.

Anne: First, out of all two hundred?

Gilbert: I’m just sorry you had to share it with me.

Anne: I never expected to beat you.

Gilbert: Can’t we be friends. This childishness has gone on long enough don’t you think?

Anne: The fact that you rescued me unnecessarily hardly wipes out past wrongs.

Gilbert: Look, I’m sorry I ever said anything about your hair. You have no idea how sorry. It was so long ago, aren’t you ever going to forgive me?

Anne: You hurt my feelings excruciatingly.

Gilbert: I only said it because… I wanted to meet you so much.

Anne: Why did you turn your back one me at the Christmas Ball?

Gilbert: Anne that was over a year ago.

Anne: It was a deliberate humiliation.

Gilbert: And I knew exactly what you were thinking Anne Shirley, you and Diana Barry. Look, can we be friends now?

Anne: Why don’t you figure it out, if you’re so clever?

Gilbert: Anne, wait a minute?

Anne: Everyone will think I drowned.

FIELDS

Diana: Oh Anne! We thought you were…

Jane: It’s all our fault. And Ruby’s having hysterics. Oh Anne how did you ever escape?

Anne: I climbed underneath the bridge. And Gilbert Blythe came along and rowed me to shore.

Jane: Oh, how romantic. Of course you’ll speak to him from now on.

Anne: Of course I will not. I don’t ever want to hear the word romance again jane Andrews. It’s enough in Camelot but it certainly isn’t appreciated in Avonlea. Oh, I’m sorry I frightened everyone so, it was all my fault.

Mrs. Lind: Well, I’m sure John Barry will be pleased to know that he no longer owns a dorry Anne Shirley.

Marilla: You do beat all girl. When are you going to have any sense?

Anne: I think my prospects are brightening. I just saw the class list for Queen’s. For better or for worse, I tied with Gilbert Blythe for first.

Marilla: First?

Diana: Oh Anne, you must be so proud?

Marilla: I must say you’ve done pretty well for yourself Anne>

Mrs. Lind: Well, I guess she has done well Marilla. Far be it from me to be backward when praise is due. You’re a credit to us all and we’re all proud of you.

BRIDGE

Gilbert: Good afternoon, Miss Cuthbert.

Marilla: Good afternoon.

Gilbert: I’m Gilbert Blythe.

Marilla: Yes. You’ve grown into quite a young man.

Gilbert: So you must be very proud of Anne, it’s a real challenge keeping up with her at school.

Marilla: Yes, Matthew and I are both proud. She has the talent to make something of herself, but she’s still very young Gilbert. Good afternoon.

Gilbert: Good afternoon, Ma’am.

GENERAL STORE ( LAWSON’S STORE)

Shopkeeper: So what are you going to recite Anne?

Anne: I’ve decide to give the Highwayman. It’s very pathetic. Laura Spencer is giving a comic recitation, but I prefer to make people cry.

Shopkeeper: Are you nervous?

Anne: A little bit, enough though I stood out in public so often. But I feel very well prepared and that helps.

Shopkeeper: Well this organdy will look elegant under all the electric lights at the White Sands Hotel. Oh, mother tried to convince me to audition with a violin solo. Can you imagine? I mean, I haven’t picked up a bow in three years. The Charlottetown Hospital is a worthy cause and all, but I am not prepared to suffer humiliation for it.

Anne: We’re all amateurs. They may be all sorry they asked any of us to do it when it’s all over.

Shopkeeper: Well, hardly the case with you Anne. After standing first at Queen’s, you can do no wrong in this community.

Anne: Someone ought to tell that to Marilla.

Shopkeeper: Well, Mr. Cuthbert is sure proud. He plunks down his money awful quick these days for anything I tell him is pretty and fashionable.

Anne: Alice Lawson you devil! Don’t you go abusing Matthew’s generosity to me. Oh, you do have good taste though. I’ll see you at the concert.

OUTSIDE STORE

Gilbert: Hello Anne. Wow. Can I offer you a ride home? You promised we were going to be friends, remember?

Anne: Well, all right then. It is rather awkward with all these. It was good of you to stop.

Gilbert: It seems I’ve developed quite a habit of getting you out of awkward situations.

Anne: I thought a lot about what happened at the bridge Gilbert. What I mean to say is, it was very rude of me to just run off like that, but I was very overwrought over learning my score, our score. I mean, I wasn’t myself.

Gilbert: That’s all right. Life’s too short to hold grudges anyway.

Anne: It’s valiant of you to say so. You’ll go far with that kind of attitude.

Gilbert: Do you know what you’re going to study at Queen’s yet Anne?

Anne: I intend on taking my Teacher’s license in one year, instead of two, like Miss Stacey suggested.

Gilbert: Gee, I always imagined you’d have a career on the stage. I think you’d make a swell actress, especially as the Lily Maid. I hear you’re going to be doing the Highwayman at the White Sands recital.

Anne: My life is an open book I see. Who told you that?

Gilbert: Well, I have a little confession to make. Well, I was just at the Lawson’s myself and Alice told me you were walking home.

Anne: Oh.

Gilbert: I’m going to try and get you an encore while you’re up there so make sure you have a second selection ready.

Anne: Nobody’s going to encore me.

Gilbert; Well, I would, especially if I had the honor of escorting you to the concert.

Anne: Um, I don’t know. I promised the Barry’s I’d go with them, but…

Gilbert: I think you’re old enough to make up your own mind Anne.

Anne: I’ve always been old enough to make up my own mind. Very well then Gilbert, I’d be pleased to accept your invitation. Ah, could you let me off at the corner please. I’m going to take a short cut and show Diana what I bought.

GREEN GABLES

Marilla: Well, Matthew, say something. She was holding his hand.

Matthew: She’d have to hold his hand if he was helping her out of the buggy.

Marilla: What was she doing in that buggy?

Matthew: Well, nothing worth all this fussing.

Marilla: She’s just a child Matthew. She doesn’t know what she’s doing.

Anne: Hello everyone, sorry I was late. I stopped over at Diana’s and she just loves the material you chose Matthew.

Marilla: I’ve just been informed by a reliable source that you were seen at Avonlea crossroads in a buggy, with a young man.

Matthew: Marilla!

Anne: He only offered me a ride home. He was just being friendly.

Marilla: Not according to Rachel Lind.

Anne: Rachel Lind?

Marilla: Yes. Rachel Lind saw you.

Matthew: Marilla, she ain’t done nothing wrong.

Marilla: Matthew, remember, in the beginning I told you not to put your oar in.

BEDROOM

Marilla: I’m sorry I lost my temper.

Anne: Marilla please. I never meant anything to come of all of this.

Marilla: And nothing has has it? Anne, you’ve changed so much. You’ve grown so tall and so stylish. You don’t belong in Avonlea anymore. I get lonely just thinking about it. You’ll be going off into the world to make your way. You don’t want to make any ties here that you might come to regret later.

Anne: It doesn’t matter where I go or how I change, I will always be your Anne, Anne of Green Gables.

OUTSIDE

Anne: I want you to give this to him.

Diana: Dear Gilbert:

I regret that I will be unable to attend the White Sands concert.

Sincerely Anne Shirley

Diana: Why won’t you go with him?

Anne: There’s plenty of reasons why I won’t go. I only accepted in the first place because he dared me.

Diana: Well, I think you owe him an explanation.

GREEN GABLES

Marilla: I hope you don’t ruin your dress driving their in the dust. It’s far too thin for this damp weather. I’m sorry I ever agreed to it.

BEDROOM

Anne: Thank you Matthew.

Marilla: Well there’s no use saying anything to you Matthew but those pearls look absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know where you get these silly ideas.

Anne: Matthew is proud of the way I look.

Girl’s voice: Anne!

Anne: See you later. Thank you Marilla and Matthew. I mustn’t keep them waiting.

Marilla: Now mind you keep your dress clear of the wheel.

Matthew: Good luck Anne.

Anne: I’ll be watching for you both.

WHITE SANDS HOTEL

Diana: Gilbert gave me this in return for your note. He’s coming to watch you anyway.

Anne: I didn’t want Jane gabbing to see me. “You have a right to your own opinion. It would have been easier if you had told me person. Please consider me a friend.

Sincerely, Gilbert Blythe.”

Anne: I won’t be accused of being a coward, Diana. He doesn’t understand. I want to speak to him the first moment I can steal away tonight.

Diana: Calm down Anne.

Anne: I’m so ashamed. I can’t go up on that stage. I can’t. It’ll be merciless if I fail.

Diana: You’ve never failed at anything Anne Shirley. Go on.

POETRY RECITAL

Poetess:

Ho, ho, the breakers roared at daybreak

On the bleak sea beach a fisherman stood aghast

To see the form of a maiden fair lashed close to a drifting mast

The salt sea was frozen on her breast

The salt tears in her eyes,

And he saw her hair like the brown sea weed

On the billows fall and rise.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus

In the midnight and the snow

God save us all from a death like this

On the reef of Normand’s woe.

Woman; Mrs. Emillia Evans has just completed a European tour. She’s a prestigious talent. I was moved beyond words.

Woman: On behalf of Charlottetown Hospital, I would like to offer our indebtedness to Mrs. Emillia Evans, for gracing us with such a stirring performance in support of today’s benefit. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present one of Avonlea’s most celebrated students, who achieved the highest standing in the recent entrance examinations to Queen’s Academy. Miss Anne Shirley.

Woman; This will be amusing to see what arouses from the local amateurs at this.

Anne: The Highwayman

The wind was torrent of darkness

Among the….etc.

With a bunch of lace at his throat.

Gilbert: Encore.

Woman: Anne you were splendid! Go back. Encore.

Anne: I can’t go back.

LOBBY OF HOTEL

Marilla: Anne I have to admit I was so proud.

Woman: Your recitation was as magnificent as Mrs. Evans.

Girl: Tisane hair.

Man: whatever that means?

Anne: Plain red, it’s just a fancy way of saying it.

Diana: Well, he thought you were wonderful anyway.

Woman: You’ll forgive me for stealing her away again won’t you. There are so many people waiting to meet our young Miss Shirley.

Anne: Excuse me. I don’t mean to be rude. There is someone that I absolutely must speak with. I’ll return right away, I promise.

Woman; Very well, Dear, but hurry up. I have important people waiting.

OUTSIDE HOTEL

Anne: Gilbert! Gilbert!

Diana: I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to talk to him Anne. Blame me if you want.

Anne: It’s all right Diana. Some things just aren’t meant to be.

Diana: Did you see all those diamonds. I wish I was rich so I could spend my whole summer in a Hotel eating ice cream and chickens salad.

Anne: You know something Diana, we are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit. And we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as Queens. Look at that. You couldn’t enjoy loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.

Diana: I don’t know about that.

Anne: I’m content with my string of pearls. Matthew gave them to me with as much love as ever as would have any of those stuffy woman’s jewels. I am happy Diana, and nothing is going to hold me back.

TRAIN STATION

Marilla: Hurry up Anne, you think the train is going to wait for you?

Anne: I’ll take it Matthew. It’ll be easier if I go quickly by myself.

Marilla; You’re getting emotional over nothing.

Anne: Nothing? You both mean everything to me.

Marilla; All this foolishness. You might as well kiss him too.

Stationmaster: All aboard! All aboard!

Marilla: I’m afraid for her Matthew. She’ll be gone so long. She’ll get terrible lonesome.

Matthew: You mean we’ll get terrible lonesome.

Marilla: I can’t stop wishing she stayed a little girl.

Matthew: Mrs. Spencer made a luck mistake I guess.

Marilla: It wasn’t luck, it was Providence. He knew we need her.

Matthew: Even with her, queer little ways.

Marilla: I loved her for them.

AUNT JOE’S HORSE BUGGY

Aunt Joe: I like people who make me like them. It saves me so much trouble forcing myself to like them. Oh, I’d be a much happier woman if you’d stay at Beechwood with me.

Anne: There’s no other place I’d rather be Miss Barry.

Aunt Joe: I know it’s impractical. You need to be near the school. The lady who runs this boarding house is a gentle woman of reduced circumstances. You’ll be quite safe. Here we are Peter.

Boarding House Woman: Miss Barry says you have a creative turn of mind, so I’ll give you my best room looking out over the street.

Anne: Thank you I’m sure.

Boarding House Woman: Cheer up now. I’ve had dozens of students here and I haven’t lost one of them yet. If there’s anything you want just let me know.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE

Lecturer: Those of you who have elected to complete the program for a Teacher’s license in one year instead of two, have a difficult struggle ahead of you. But you’re here because we know you’re capable of doing it. These first two weeks will be a probationary period in which you can decide whether you really want to complete the program in a single year. In that sense these first two weeks will be the most important you spend at Queen’s. Bear that in mind.

Josie: Anne Shirley, you look positively ill. If ever your eyes and nose get red you’ll be seeing red all over.

Anne: Tell me, how are the first year students doing?

Josei: Our French professor’s a dream. He has the cutest mustache. Come for lunch and I’ll tell all. I’m meeting Jane and Ruby and some of the others.

Anne: Thank you, but I have other business to attend to.

Josie: Gilbert won’t be there if that’s what’s worrying you.

Anne: Whatever do you mean?

Josie: Gilbert Blythe is a rake and after his insulting behavior at the White Sands concert, I’ve decided to completely ignore him. Besides, there are far more dashing young men around here anyway.

Anne: I’m amazed that Gilbert could even insult you.

Jane: Anne, they’re looking all over for you. What’s second class like?

Anne: I wish you people had decided to go into second.

Girl: Second? I’ll be lucky if I pass first.

Josie: I don’t care if I don’ t pass. My father can afford to send me back.

Jane: You know Anne, Frank Stalkley told me that the graduate who receives the highest mark in English Lit. this year will win the Avery scholarship, $250 a year for four years.

Anne: Are you sure?

Jane: The board of governors is announcing it tomorrow. It’ll be you for sure Anne.

Anne: I don’t know. This is a much bigger pond we’re swimming in now, than in Avonlea.

Josie: Will you two goody goodies control yourselves. There’s a lot more to do around here than to keep your nose in the books.

AUNT JOE’S

Aunt Joe: So you have been here one week and already you’re planning to take an Arts degree from Redmond college.

Anne: I fully intend to win that Avery scholarship, if hard work can do it.

Aunt Joe: I never knew a girl with such ambition, except perhaps myself. But my ambition was for money. God knows I’ve succeeded.

Anne: I’ve never really considered money.

Aunt Joe: Probably just as well. Though I can hardly believe I’m saying so. Wealth can be very empty, when you don’t have someone to share it with. But by the time I realized that no one would have me except men who wanted my money more than I did.

Anne: You aren’t lonely though are you?

Aunt Joe: Not with you in town. Now tell me, have you made all kinds of interesting friends upon your first week here then?

Anne: I have a small circle of friends but no bosom friends mind you.

Aunt Joe: But what about young men in that circle of friends?

Anne: I’ve become too practical for romance. Like Marilla, I shall probably end up an old Maid. Miss Barry, I didn’t mean that.

Aunt Joe: It isn’t all that bad. A married woman could never be as cantankerous as I am free to be. But it’s not a circumstance I’d recommend for you. Make a little room in your plans again for romance, Anne girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it.

COLLEGE LIBRARY

Anne: May I leave this for Gilbert Blythe?

Library Clerk: You can take it to him yourself Miss. He’s across the hall.

Anne: Thank you.

Girl: Emily Clay or you can win the Avery scholarship.

Gilbert: Don’t be too sure.

GREEN GABLES

Marilla: Dear Marilla:

It hardly seems possible that the term is almost over. I’ve become so preoccupied with my work I’ve almost lost track of time. But here I am with exams looming up before me and for the time being they are all that there is in the world. But, as Rachel Lind used to say, “ the sun will go on rising and setting”, whether I fail in geometry or not. I think I’d rather it didn’t go on if I failed. I miss you both very, very much.

Yours lovingly with all my heart

Anne

Matthew: She sounds unhappy.

COLLEGE

Jane: Ah, cheer up Anne, you have to win at least one of the awards.

Anne: I’m not sure I care anymore.

Jane: That’s a fine attitude after all the work you put in.

Anne: I haven’t a hope fore the Avery. Everybody has practically said that
Emily Clay is getting it.

Jane: You’ll probably get the Gold medal then.

Anne; Well, I’m not going to look at the bulletin board. I’m going to go straight to the girl’s dressing room.

Jane: I’ll go find you.

Anne: If I fail, don’t say so Jane, don’t break it to me gently and don’t sympathize.

OUTSIDE COLLEGE

Crowd of Students: Hip hip hurray for Gilbert Blythe, winner of the Gold medal.

Girl: Three cheers for Anne Shirley, winner of the Avery.

Crowd of Students: Hip, hip hurray, Hip hip hurray, Hip hip hurray.

SEA BEACH

Anne: Isn’t that breath of mint delicious? I can’t bear the thought of leaving here again.

Diana: Four long years. I’ll probably be old and gray when you do come back Anne.

Anne: More likely married to a dashingly handsome young man. And too busy with babies to be interested in your former bosom friend.

Diana: Such as who, Moody?

Anne: I’ll pray that someone wonderful comes to Avonlea and sweeps you off your feet.

Diana: Gilbert’s getting the Avonlea school you know?

Anne: He isn’t going to College?

Diana: His father can’t afford to send him so he’s going to earn his way. Did you ever explain to him?

Anne: Some books are better left on the shelf. I wish him luck though. He’s a determined young man.

Diana: Then as far as you’re concerned, he’s fair game.

Anne: Why Diana Barry, if you were interested in Gilbert Blythe why didn’t you ever say so?

Diana: Because I thought my bosom friend was inb love with him.

Anne: In love with Gilbert Blythe. Me?

Diana: Yes you. Gilbert did say that being smart was better than being pretty.

Anne: Goodnight dear sweet Diana.

Diana: Goodnight Anne.

GREEN GABLES FARM FIELD

Anne: Matthew! Matthew! What is it?

Matthew: I’m all right.

Anne: Please Matthew, you need help. I’m going to get a doctor.

Matthew: I worked hard all my life. I’d rather drop in the harness. I got old; I never noticed.

Anne: I’m the boy you sent for. I could have spared you in so many ways.

Matthew: I never wanted a boy. I only wanted you from the first day. Don’t ever change. I love my little girl. I’m so proud of our little girl.

Anne: Matthew, don’t.

CHURCH FUNERAL

Rev. Allen: We have stood here in silent prayer at Matthew Cuthbert’s grave, and struggled each of us to see the meaning in his life. But the mystery of death prevails. All we know is that we are troubled in our hearts at this evidence that death comes to all of us. In the end all we know is that we loved him, and we commend his soul to Jesus.

Gilbert: Miss Cuthbert, Anne, I’m very sorry for your loss.

Marilla: Thank you Gilbert Blythe.

GREEN GABLES ANNE’S BEDROOM

Marilla: There now, dear. I won’t bring him back.

Anne: Put your arms around me Marilla for a little while. Tears don’t hurt like the ache does.

Marilla: I know I’ve been strict with you. I don’t know what I’d do if you’d never come. But you mustn’t think that I don’t love you as much as Matthew did. It’s never been easy for me to say the things from my heart but… you’re like my own flesh and blood now. Oh, it’s not right to cry so. God knows best. Oh, but he was always such a kind brother to me.

Anne: We have each other now.

Marilla: Yes, yes.

GREEN GABLES

Mr. Saddler: Woe. Good morning Miss Cuthbert. And how is Green Galbes holding out these days?

Marilla: Oh pretty well. I haven’t seen you around these parts much late.

Mr. Sadlder: Oh well, business in Carmadie takes all my time if you know what I mean. This sure is a lovely piece of countryside.

Marilla: It is that. People in Avonlea say that it’s the prettiest acreage on the North Shore.

Mr. Saddler: Matthew kept this place up impeccably. You don’t want to let it get run down at all. It decreases the value. Now may be a good time to consider selling if you want to get the highest value for your property.

Marilla: Well, I can’t deny that the thought has crossed my mind.

Mr. Saddler: You could certainly retire on what I’m prepared to offer you for the place.

Marilla: Thank you Mr. Saddler.

Anne: What did Mr. Saddler want?

Marilla: He once offered to buy Green Gables and he’s still interested.

Anne: Buy Green Gables? Marilla!

Marilla: I don’t know what else to do. My eyesight is getting weaker. Dr. Spencer says that if the headaches persist, I might loose it completely. What if I can’t run this place? Rachel has kindly offered to let me live with her.

Anne: But you can’t sell Green Gables.

Marilla: Anne, I would go crazy if there was trouble and I was all alone here. I’m sorry you won’t have a home to come to on your vacations. I never thought I’d live to see the day when I would sell this place. But, we’ll survive somehow.

Anne: You won’t have to stay here alone. I’m not going to Redmond.

Marilla: What do you mean?

Anne: I’m not going to take that scholarship. I’ve already decided but I hadn’t told you yet. Mr. Barry said he’d rent our field next year and I’m going to take the school at Carmadie. I can drive back and forth until the weather gets bad, then I’ll board and come home on the weekends.

Marilla: I won’t let you sacrifice your education for me. I won’t allow it Anne Shirley.

Anne: I am going to do it. I’m sixteen years old and just as stubborn as you are.

Marilla: You blessed girl. I know I ought to stick to it and make you go to college, but I’ve learned better than to stand in your way. Gilbert Blythe will be teaching too won’t he?

Anne: Yes.

Marilla: What a nice looking young boy he is. He looks a lot like his father did at that age. We used to be real good friends he and I. People called him my beau.

Anne: And what happened?

Marilla: We quarelled and I wouldn’t forgive him when he asked me to. I wanted to after a while but I was stubborn and I wanted to punish him first. He never came back. I always felt rather sorry. I sort of wished I’d forgiven him when I had a chance.

PORCH

Rachel: Why I heard you’ve come to your senses Anne. Teacher’s course one year and off to Redmond the next. I don’t believe in women going off to college with the men, cramming their heads full of Latin and Greek.

Anne: I’m doing my courses by correspondence Rachel.

Rachel: With all the work you have to do teaching over at Carmadie, and looking after Green Gables? Marilla, talk some sense to the girl.

Marilla: Mind you own business for once Rachel and leave her alone. Anne thrives on study.

Rachel: Well Marilla, she’ll kill herself. That’s all there is to it. Pride goes before the fall.

FIELD OUTSIDE GREEN GABLES

Gilbert: Woe, woe. Hello Anne.

Anne: Taking a short cut Mr. Blythe?

Gilbert: Miss Cuthbert said I could find you here. Open it.

Anne: “We would be prepared to agree to your proposal to engage Miss Shirley under contract for one year for the post of teacher at Avonlea Public School.” That’s your post!

Gilbert: I took the liberty of speaking with the Trustees about an exchange. I’ll be getting Carmadie and you can stay at Green Gables.

Anne: I don’t know what to say.

Gilbert: Don’t say anything.

Anne: But you’d have to pay for your board. You’ll never save enough for college, you can’t…

Gilbert: I’ll save enough. Besides, I’m keeping up my studies by correspondence.

Anne: So am I. Thank you for giving up the school for me Gilbert. It’s very good of you. I want you to know that I really appreciate it.

Gilbert: Well, I figure you can give me a hand with my work and I’ll call a fair exchange.

Anne: Aren’t you worried I’m libel to break another slate over your head?

Gilbert: I might be worried I might break one over yours, carrots. I’ll walk you home.

THE END