`` I ca n't see that it 's so terribly romantic at all , '' said Marilla rather crisply . Marilla thought Anne was too worked up about it and had plenty to do with getting ready for college without `` traipsing '' to Echo Lodge two days out of three helping Miss Lavendar . `` In the first place two young fools quarrel and turn sulky ; then Steve Irving goes to the States and after a spell gets married up there and is perfectly happy from all accounts . Then his wife dies and after a decent interval he thinks he 'll come home and see if his first fancy 'll have him . Meanwhile , she 's been living single , probably because nobody nice enough came along to want her , and they meet and agree to be married after all . Now , where is the romance in all that ? '' `` Oh , there is n't any , when you put it that way , '' gasped Anne , rather as if somebody had thrown cold water over her . `` I suppose that 's how it looks in prose . But it 's very different if you look at it through poetry ... and I think it 's nicer ... '' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed ... `` to look at it through poetry . '' Marilla glanced at the radiant young face and refrained from further sarcastic comments . Perhaps some realization came to her that after all it was better to have , like Anne , `` the vision and the faculty divine '' ... that gift which the world can not bestow or take away , of looking at life through some transfiguring ... or revealing ? ... medium , whereby everything seemed apparelled in celestial light , wearing a glory and a freshness not visible to those who , like herself and Charlotta the Fourth , looked at things only through prose . `` When 's the wedding to be ? '' she asked after a pause . `` The last Wednesday in August . They are to be married in the garden under the honeysuckle trellis ... the very spot where Mr. Irving proposed to her twenty-five years ago . Marilla , that IS romantic , even in prose . There 's to be nobody there except Mrs. Irving and Paul and Gilbert and Diana and I , and Miss Lavendar 's cousins . And they will leave on the six o'clock train for a trip to the Pacific coast . When they come back in the fall Paul and Charlotta the Fourth are to go up to Boston to live with them .
But Echo Lodge is to be left just as it is ... only of course they 'll sell the hens and cow , and board XXXXX the windows ... and every summer they 're coming down to live in it .
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