`` I never felt glad to see Gilbert go before , '' she thought , half-resentfully , half-sorrowfully , as she walked alone up the lane . `` Our friendship will be spoiled if he goes on with this nonsense . It must n't be spoiled -- I wo n't let it . Oh , WHY ca n't boys be just sensible ! '' Anne had an uneasy doubt that it was not strictly `` sensible '' that she should still feel on her hand the warm pressure of Gilbert 's , as distinctly as she had felt it for the swift second his had rested there ; and still less sensible that the sensation was far from being an unpleasant one -- very different from that which had attended a similar demonstration on Charlie Sloane 's part , when she had been sitting out a dance with him at a White Sands party three nights before . Anne shivered over the disagreeable recollection . But all problems connected with infatuated swains vanished from her mind when she entered the homely , unsentimental atmosphere of the Green Gables kitchen where an eight-year-old boy was crying grievously on the sofa . `` What is the matter , Davy ? '' asked Anne , taking him up in her arms . `` Where are Marilla and Dora ? '' `` Marilla 's putting Dora to bed , '' sobbed Davy , `` and I 'm crying 'cause Dora fell down the outside cellar steps , heels over head , and scraped all the skin off her nose , and -- '' `` Oh , well , do n't cry about it , dear . Of course , you are sorry for her , but crying wo n't help her any . She 'll be all right tomorrow . Crying never helps any one , Davy-boy , and -- '' `` I ai n't crying 'cause Dora fell down cellar , '' said Davy , cutting short Anne 's wellmeant preachment with increasing bitterness . `` I 'm crying , cause I was n't there to see her fall . I 'm always missing some fun or other , seems to me . '' `` Oh , Davy ! '' Anne choked back an unholy shriek of laughter . `` Would you call it fun to see poor little Dora fall down the steps and get hurt ? '' `` She was n't MUCH hurt , '' said Davy , defiantly . ''
` Course , if she 'd been killed I 'd have been real sorry , XXXXX .
Anne Davy Gilbert Sloane choked eight-year-old fall preachment right swains