`` We are going to be the best of friends , '' said Gilbert , jubilantly . `` We were born to be good friends , Anne . You 've thwarted destiny enough . I know we can help each other in many ways . You are going to keep up your studies , are n't you ? So am I. Come , I 'm going to walk home with you . '' Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen . `` Who was that came up the lane with you , Anne ? '' `` Gilbert Blythe , '' answered Anne , vexed to find herself blushing . `` I met him on Barry 's hill . '' `` I did n't think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you 'd stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him , '' said Marilla with a dry smile . `` We have n't been -- we 've been good enemies . But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to be good friends in the future . Were we really there half an hour ? It seemed just a few minutes . But , you see , we have five years ' lost conversations to catch up with , Marilla . '' Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad content . The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs , and the mint breaths came up to her . The stars twinkled over the pointed firs in the hollow and Diana 's light gleamed through the old gap . Anne 's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen 's ; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it .
The joy XXXXX sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers ; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams .
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