You have more to offer me in that rich nature of yours , and I have more to give you than I had in my careless girlhood . We are both women -- and friends forever . '' They clasped hands and smiled at each other through the tears that filled the gray eyes and the blue . CHAPTER 22 MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS Gilbert insisted that Susan should be kept on at the little house for the summer . Anne protested at first . `` Life here with just the two of us is so sweet , Gilbert . It spoils it a little to have anyone else . Susan is a dear soul , but she is an outsider . It wo n't hurt me to do the work here . '' `` You must take your doctor 's advice , '' said Gilbert . `` There 's an old proverb to the effect that shoemakers ' wives go barefoot and doctors ' wives die young . I do n't mean that it shall be true in my household . You will keep Susan until the old spring comes back into your step , and those little hollows on your cheeks fill out . '' `` You just take it easy , Mrs. Doctor , dear , '' said Susan , coming abruptly in . `` Have a good time and do not worry about the pantry . Susan is at the helm . There is no use in keeping a dog and doing your own barking . I am going to take your breakfast up to you every morning . '' `` Indeed you are not , '' laughed Anne . `` I agree with Miss Cornelia that it 's a scandal for a woman who is n't sick to eat her breakfast in bed , and almost justifies the men in any enormities . ''
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