XLI Love Takes Up the Glass of Time `` I 've come up to ask you to go for one of our old-time rambles through September woods and ` over hills where spices grow , ' this afternoon , '' said Gilbert , coming suddenly around the porch corner . `` Suppose we visit Hester Gray 's garden . '' Anne , sitting on the stone step with her lap full of a pale , filmy , green stuff , looked up rather blankly . `` Oh , I wish I could , '' she said slowly , `` but I really ca n't , Gilbert . I 'm going to Alice Penhallow 's wedding this evening , you know . I 've got to do something to this dress , and by the time it 's finished I 'll have to get ready . I 'm so sorry . I 'd love to go . '' `` Well , can you go tomorrow afternoon , then ? '' asked Gilbert , apparently not much disappointed . `` Yes , I think so . '' `` In that case I shall hie me home at once to do something I should otherwise have to do tomorrow . So Alice Penhallow is to be married tonight . Three weddings for you in one summer , Anne -- Phil 's , Alice 's , and Jane 's . I 'll never forgive Jane for not inviting me to her wedding . '' `` You really ca n't blame her when you think of the tremendous Andrews connection who had to be invited . The house could hardly hold them all . I was only bidden by grace of being Jane 's old chum -- at least on Jane 's part . I think Mrs. Harmon 's motive for inviting me was to let me see Jane 's surpassing gorgeousness . '' `` Is it true that she wore so many diamonds that you could n't tell where the diamonds left off and Jane began ? ''
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