`` If I ca n't stay here there is no use in my loving Green Gables . And if I go out there and get acquainted with all those trees and flowers and the orchard and the brook I 'll not be able to help loving it . It 's hard enough now , so I wo n't make it any harder . I want to go out so much -- everything seems to be calling to me , ` Anne , Anne , come out to us . Anne , Anne , we want a playmate ' -- but it 's better not . There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them , is there ? And it 's so hard to keep from loving things , is n't it ? That was why I was so glad when I thought I was going to live here . I thought I 'd have so many things to love and nothing to hinder me . But that brief dream is over . I am resigned to my fate now , so I do n't think I 'll go out for fear I 'll get unresigned again . What is the name of that geranium on the window-sill , please ? '' `` That 's the apple-scented geranium . '' `` Oh , I do n't mean that sort of a name . I mean just a name you gave it yourself . Did n't you give it a name ? May I give it one then ? May I call it -- let me see -- Bonny would do -- may I call it Bonny while I 'm here ? Oh , do let me ! '' `` Goodness , I do n't care .
But where on earth is the sense of naming a XXXXX ? ''
Anne Bonny Gables brook geranium orchard playmate sort things window-sill