We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us , and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us . '' `` I was down to the graveyard to plant a rosebush on Matthew 's grave this afternoon , '' said Anne dreamily . `` I took a slip of the little white Scotch rosebush his mother brought out from Scotland long ago ; Matthew always liked those roses the best -- they were so small and sweet on their thorny stems . It made me feel glad that I could plant it by his grave -- as if I were doing something that must please him in taking it there to be near him . I hope he has roses like them in heaven . Perhaps the souls of all those little white roses that he has loved so many summers were all there to meet him . I must go home now . Marilla is all alone and she gets lonely at twilight . '' `` She will be lonelier still , I fear , when you go away again to college , '' said Mrs. Allan . Anne did not reply ; she said good night and went slowly back to green Gables . Marilla was sitting on the front door-steps and Anne sat down beside her . The door was open behind them , held back by a big pink conch shell with hints of sea sunsets in its smooth inner convolutions . Anne gathered some sprays of pale-yellow honeysuckle and put them in her hair . She liked the delicious hint of fragrance , as some aerial benediction , above her every time she moved . `` Doctor Spencer was here while you were away , '' Marilla said . `` He says that the specialist will be in town tomorrow and he insists that I must go in and have my eyes examined . I suppose I 'd better go and have it over . I 'll be more than thankful if the man can give me the right kind of glasses to suit my eyes . You wo n't mind staying here alone while I 'm away , will you ? Martin will have to drive me in and there 's ironing and baking to do . ''
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Gables Marilla Matthew Scotland afternoon convolutions door-steps right summers twilight