`` She 's just wasted here -- wasted . '' `` Were n't you listening to Captain Jim and yours truly the other night when we discussed that subject generally ? We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do , and that , after all , there are no such things as ` wasted ' lives , saving and except when an individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life -- which Leslie Moore certainly has n't done . And some people might think that a Redmond B.A. , whom editors were beginning to honor , was ` wasted ' as the wife of a struggling country doctor in the rural community of Four Winds . '' `` Gilbert ! '' `` 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 , XXXXX ; there is ours .
Anne BLYTHE Gardner Gilbert Jim Leslie Moore Redmond coruscation night