I shall be cheerful and philosophical again after I have just one good cry . I MUST have that , ` as a went ' -- and I 'll have to wait until I get into my boardinghouse bed tonight , wherever it may be , before I can have it . Then Anne will be herself again . I wonder if Davy has come out of the closet yet . '' It was nine that night when their train reached Kingsport , and they found themselves in the blue-white glare of the crowded station . Anne felt horribly bewildered , but a moment later she was seized by Priscilla Grant , who had come to Kingsport on Saturday . `` Here you are , beloved ! And I suppose you 're as tired as I was when I got here Saturday night . '' `` Tired ! Priscilla , do n't talk of it . I 'm tired , and green , and provincial , and only about ten years old . For pity 's sake take your poor , broken-down chum to some place where she can hear herself think . '' `` I 'll take you right up to our boardinghouse . I 've a cab ready outside . '' `` It 's such a blessing you 're here , Prissy . If you were n't I think I should just sit down on my suitcase , here and now , and weep bitter tears . What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers ! '' `` Is that Gilbert Blythe over there , Anne ? How he has grown up this past year ! He was only a schoolboy when I taught in Carmody .
And XXXXX course that 's Charlie Sloane .
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