Perhaps Charlie Sloane had guessed and told his guesses for truth . Perhaps Diana had betrayed it to Fred and Fred had been indiscreet . At all events it was known ; Mrs. Blythe no longer asked Anne , in public or private , if she had heard lately from Gilbert , but passed her by with a frosty bow . Anne , who had always liked Gilbert 's merry , young-hearted mother , was grieved in secret over this . Marilla said nothing ; but Mrs. Lynde gave Anne many exasperated digs about it , until fresh gossip reached that worthy lady , through the medium of Moody Spurgeon MacPherson 's mother , that Anne had another `` beau '' at college , who was rich and handsome and good all in one . After that Mrs. Rachel held her tongue , though she still wished in her inmost heart that Anne had accepted Gilbert . Riches were all very well ; but even Mrs. Rachel , practical soul though she was , did not consider them the one essential . If Anne `` liked '' the Handsome Unknown better than Gilbert there was nothing more to be said ; but Mrs. Rachel was dreadfully afraid that Anne was going to make the mistake of marrying for money . Marilla knew Anne too well to fear this ; but she felt that something in the universal scheme of things had gone sadly awry . `` What is to be , will be , '' said Mrs. Rachel gloomily , `` and what is n't to be happens sometimes . I ca n't help believing it 's going to happen in Anne 's case , if Providence does n't interfere , that 's what . '' Mrs. Rachel sighed . She was afraid Providence would n't interfere ; and she did n't dare to . Anne had wandered down to the Dryad 's Bubble and was curled up among the ferns at the root of the big white birch where she and Gilbert had so often sat in summers gone by . He had gone into the newspaper office again when college closed , and Avonlea seemed very dull without him . He never wrote to her , and Anne missed the letters that never came . To be sure , Roy wrote twice a week ; his letters were exquisite compositions which would have read beautifully in a memoir or biography . Anne felt herself more deeply in love with him than ever when she read them ; but her heart never gave the queer , quick , painful bound at sight of his letters which it had given one day when Mrs. Hiram Sloane had handed her out an envelope addressed in Gilbert 's black , upright handwriting . Anne had hurried home to the east gable and opened it eagerly -- to find a typewritten copy of some college society report -- `` only that and nothing more . '' Anne flung the harmless screed across her room and sat down to write an especially nice epistle to Roy .
Diana was XXXXX be married in five more days .
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