Nothing in her life had ever given Marilla so much happiness as the knowledge that Anne was going to marry Gilbert Blythe ; but every joy must bring with it its little shadow of sorrow . During the three Summerside years Anne had been home often for vacations and weekends ; but , after this , a bi-annual visit would be as much as could be hoped for . `` You need n't let what Mrs. Harmon says worry you , '' said Diana , with the calm assurance of the four-years matron . `` Married life has its ups and downs , of course . You must n't expect that everything will always go smoothly . But I can assure you , Anne , that it 's a happy life , when you 're married to the right man . '' Anne smothered a smile . Diana 's airs of vast experience always amused her a little . `` I daresay I 'll be putting them on too , when I 've been married four years , '' she thought . `` Surely my sense of humor will preserve me from it , though . '' `` Is it settled yet where you are going to live ? '' asked Diana , cuddling Small Anne Cordelia with the inimitable gesture of motherhood which always sent through Anne 's heart , filled with sweet , unuttered dreams and hopes , a thrill that was half pure pleasure and half a strange , ethereal pain . `` Yes . That was what I wanted to tell you when I ` phoned to you to come down today . By the way , I ca n't realize that we really have telephones in Avonlea now . It sounds so preposterously up-to-date and modernish for this darling , leisurely old place . '' `` We can thank the A. V. I. S. for them , '' said Diana . `` We should never have got the line if they had n't taken the matter up and carried it through . There was enough cold water thrown to discourage any society . But they stuck to it , nevertheless .
You did a splendid thing for Avonlea when you founded that society , XXXXX .
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