`` It wo n't hurt so much always , Anne . '' `` The thought that it may stop hurting sometimes hurts me worse than all else , Marilla . '' `` Yes , I know , I 've felt that too , about other things . But we all love you , Anne . Captain Jim has been up every day to ask for you -- and Mrs. Moore haunts the place -- and Miss Bryant spends most of her time , I think , cooking up nice things for you . Susan does n't like it very well . She thinks she can cook as well as Miss Bryant . '' `` Dear Susan ! Oh , everybody has been so dear and good and lovely to me , Marilla . I 'm not ungrateful -- and perhaps -- when this horrible ache grows a little less -- I 'll find that I can go on living . '' CHAPTER 20 LOST MARGARET Anne found that she could go on living ; the day came when she even smiled again over one of Miss Cornelia 's speeches . But there was something in the smile that had never been in Anne 's smile before and would never be absent from it again . On the first day she was able to go for a drive Gilbert took her down to Four Winds Point , and left her there while he rowed over the channel to see a patient at the fishing village . A rollicking wind was scudding across the harbor and the dunes , whipping the water into white-caps and washing the sandshore with long lines of silvery breakers . `` I 'm real proud to see you here again , Mistress Blythe , '' said Captain Jim . `` Sit down -- sit down . I 'm afeared it 's mighty dusty here today -- but there 's no need of looking at dust when you can look at such scenery , is there ? '' `` I do n't mind the dust , '' said Anne , `` but Gilbert says I must keep in the open air . I think I 'll go and sit on the rocks down there . '' `` Would you like company or would you rather be alone ? ''
`` If by company you mean yours I 'd much rather have it than be alone , '' said XXXXX , smiling .
Anne Blythe Bryant Gilbert Jim Moore Point Susan left sandshore