Remembrance wove a sweet and subtle spell over the two young creatures . `` You are very quiet , Anne , '' said Gilbert at last . `` I 'm afraid to speak or move for fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence , '' breathed Anne . Gilbert suddenly laid his hand over the slender white one lying on the rail of the bridge . His hazel eyes deepened into darkness , his still boyish lips opened to say something of the dream and hope that thrilled his soul . But Anne snatched her hand away and turned quickly . The spell of the dusk was broken for her . `` I must go home , '' she exclaimed , with a rather overdone carelessness . `` Marilla had a headache this afternoon , and I 'm sure the twins will be in some dreadful mischief by this time . I really should n't have stayed away so long . '' She chattered ceaselessly and inconsequently until they reached the Green Gables lane . Poor Gilbert hardly had a chance to get a word in edgewise . Anne felt rather relieved when they parted . There had been a new , secret self-consciousness in her heart with regard to Gilbert , ever since that fleeting moment of revelation in the garden of Echo Lodge . Something alien had intruded into the old , perfect , school-day comradeship -- something that threatened to mar it . `` I never felt glad to see Gilbert go before , '' she thought , half-resentfully , half-sorrowfully , as she walked alone up the lane . `` Our friendship will be spoiled if he goes on with this nonsense . It must n't be spoiled -- I wo n't let it . Oh , WHY ca n't boys be just sensible ! '' Anne had an uneasy doubt that it was not strictly `` sensible '' that she should still feel on her hand the warm pressure of Gilbert 's , as distinctly as she had felt it for the swift second his had rested there ; and still less sensible that the sensation was far from being an unpleasant one -- very different from that which had attended a similar demonstration on Charlie Sloane 's part , when she had been sitting out a dance with him at a White Sands party three nights before .
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