James Ebenezer is n't married ; he was to have been , and she died a month afore the wedding day . He was never the same man again . Well , to get back to Gilbert and Anne . When Anne 's school year ended in June she resigned and went home to get ready to be married . The wedding was to be in September , and I promised Anne faithful I 'd go over to Montrose in August for two weeks and help her to get her quilts ready . Anne thought that nobody could quilt like me . I was as tickled as a girl at the thought of visiting with Anne for two weeks , but I never went ; things happened before August . I do n't know rightly how the trouble began . Other folks -- jealous folks -- made mischief . Anne was thirty miles away and Gilbert could n't see her every day to keep matters clear and fair . Besides , as I 've said , they were both proud and high-sperrited . The upshot of it was they had a terrible quarrel and the engagement was broken . When two people do n't care overly much for each other , Nora May , a quarrel never amounts to much between them , and it 's soon made up . But when they love each other better than life it cuts so deep and hurts so much that nine times out of ten they wo n't ever forgive each other . The more you love anybody , Nora May , the more he can hurt you . To be sure , you 're too young to be thinking of such things . It all came like a thunderclap on Gil 's friends here at Greendale , because we had n't ever suspected things were going wrong . The first thing we knew was that Anne had gone up west to teach school again at St. Mary 's , eighty miles away , and Gilbert , he went out to Manitoba on a harvest excursion and stayed there . It just about broke his parents ' hearts . He was their only child and they just worshipped him .
Gil and Anne both wrote to me off and on , but never a word , not so much XXXXX a name , did they say of each other .
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