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 , Gilbert ; there is ours . I 'm so glad we left it burning . I hate to come home to a dark house . OUR homelight , Gilbert ! Is n't it lovely to see ? '' `` Just one of earth 's many millions of homes , Anne -- girl -- but ours -- OURS -- our beacon in ' a naughty world . ' When a fellow has a home and a dear , little , red-haired wife in it what more need he ask of life ? '' `` Well , he might ask ONE thing more , '' whispered Anne happily . `` Oh , Gilbert , it seems as if I just COULD N'T wait for the spring . '' CHAPTER 15 CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas ; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds . `` I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home , '' decreed Anne . So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas . Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe . She had never been sixty miles away from home before ; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables . Mrs. Rachel had made and brought with her an enormous plum pudding .
Nothing could have convinced Mrs. Rachel that a college graduate of the younger generation could make a Christmas plum XXXXX properly ; but she bestowed approval on Anne 's house .
Anne Avonlea Gables Marilla Rachel first glooms homelight left pudding