It was impossible to associate the thought of her with anything like death . She had greeted Anne with gay cordiality after church , and urged her to come up the next evening . `` I 'll be away Tuesday and Wednesday evenings , '' she had whispered triumphantly . `` There 's a concert at Carmody and a party at White Sands . Herb Spencer 's going to take me . He 's my LATEST . Be sure to come up tomorrow . I 'm dying for a good talk with you . I want to hear all about your doings at Redmond . '' Anne knew that Ruby meant that she wanted to tell Anne all about her own recent flirtations , but she promised to go , and Diana offered to go with her . `` I 've been wanting to go to see Ruby for a long while , '' she told Anne , when they left Green Gables the next evening , `` but I really could n't go alone . It 's so awful to hear Ruby rattling on as she does , and pretending there is nothing the matter with her , even when she can hardly speak for coughing . She 's fighting so hard for her life , and yet she has n't any chance at all , they say . '' The girls walked silently down the red , twilit road . The robins were singing vespers in the high treetops , filling the golden air with their jubilant voices . The silver fluting of the frogs came from marshes and ponds , over fields where seeds were beginning to stir with life and thrill to the sunshine and rain that had drifted over them . The air was fragrant with the wild , sweet , wholesome smell of young raspberry copses . White mists were hovering in the silent hollows and violet stars were shining bluely on the brooklands . `` What a beautiful sunset , '' said Diana . `` Look , Anne , it 's just like a land in itself , is n't it ?
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