`` If you had married Roy Gardner , now , '' continued Gilbert mercilessly , `` YOU could have been ' a leader in social and intellectual circles far away from Four Winds . ' '' `` Gilbert BLYTHE ! '' `` You KNOW you were in love with him at one time , Anne . '' `` Gilbert , that 's mean -- ` pisen mean , just like all the men , ' as Miss Cornelia says . I NEVER was in love with him . I only imagined I was . YOU know that . You KNOW I 'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams and fulfillment than a queen in a palace . '' Gilbert 's answer was not in words ; but I am afraid that both of them forgot poor Leslie speeding her lonely way across the fields to a house that was neither a palace nor the fulfillment of a dream . The moon was rising over the sad , dark sea behind them and transfiguring it . Her light had not yet reached the harbor , the further side of which was shadowy and suggestive , with dim coves and rich glooms and jewelling lights . `` How the home lights shine out tonight through the dark ! '' said Anne . `` That string of them over the harbor looks like a necklace . And what a coruscation there is up at the Glen ! Oh , look , Gilbert ; there is ours . I 'm so glad we left it burning . I hate to come home to a dark house . OUR homelight , Gilbert ! Is n't it lovely to see ? ''
`` Just one of earth 's many millions of homes , XXXXX -- girl -- but ours -- OURS -- our beacon in ' a naughty world . '
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