I want your love -- and you tell me I can never have that . '' `` I 'm sorry . Forgive me , Gilbert , '' was all Anne could say . Where , oh , where were all the gracious and graceful speeches wherewith , in imagination , she had been wont to dismiss rejected suitors ? Gilbert released her hand gently . `` There is n't anything to forgive . There have been times when I thought you did care . I 've deceived myself , that 's all . Goodbye , Anne . '' Anne got herself to her room , sat down on her window seat behind the pines , and cried bitterly . She felt as if something incalculably precious had gone out of her life . It was Gilbert 's friendship , of course . Oh , why must she lose it after this fashion ? `` What is the matter , honey ? '' asked Phil , coming in through the moonlit gloom . Anne did not answer . At that moment she wished Phil were a thousand miles away . `` I suppose you 've gone and refused Gilbert Blythe . You are an idiot , Anne Shirley ! '' `` Do you call it idiotic to refuse to marry a man I do n't love ? ''
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