I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them . I 'm sure they would be very beautiful . '' Gilbert was not to be thus sidetracked . `` I have a dream , '' he said slowly . `` I persist in dreaming it , although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true . I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it , a cat and dog , the footsteps of friends -- and YOU ! '' Anne wanted to speak but she could find no words . Happiness was breaking over her like a wave . It almost frightened her . `` I asked you a question over two years ago , Anne . If I ask it again today will you give me a different answer ? '' Still Anne could not speak . But she lifted her eyes , shining with all the love-rapture of countless generations , and looked into his for a moment . He wanted no other answer . They lingered in the old garden until twilight , sweet as dusk in Eden must have been , crept over it . There was so much to talk over and recall -- things said and done and heard and thought and felt and misunderstood . `` I thought you loved Christine Stuart , '' Anne told him , as reproachfully as if she had not given him every reason to suppose that she loved Roy Gardner . Gilbert laughed boyishly . `` Christine was engaged to somebody in her home town . I knew it and she knew I knew it .
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