`` You know you will like that lovely old place at the Glen after you have lived in it long enough to have dear memories woven about it , '' said Leslie . `` Friends will come there , as they have come here -- happiness will glorify it for you . Now , it 's just a house to you -- but the years will make it a home . '' Anne and Leslie had another cry the next week when they shortened Little Jem . Anne felt the tragedy of it until evening when in his long nightie she found her own dear baby again . `` But it will be rompers next -- and then trousers -- and in no time he will be grown-up , '' she sighed . `` Well , you would not want him to stay a baby always , Mrs. Doctor , dear , would you ? '' said Susan . `` Bless his innocent heart , he looks too sweet for anything in his little short dresses , with his dear feet sticking out . And think of the save in the ironing , Mrs. Doctor , dear . '' `` Anne , I have just had a letter from Owen , '' said Leslie , entering with a bright face . `` And , oh ! I have such good news . He writes me that he is going to buy this place from the church trustees and keep it to spend our summer vacations in . Anne , are you not glad ? '' `` Oh , Leslie , ` glad ' is n't the word for it ! It seems almost too good to be true . I sha 'n' t feel half so badly now that I know this dear spot will never be desecrated by a vandal tribe , or left to tumble down in decay . Why , it 's lovely ! It 's lovely ! ''
One October morning Anne wakened XXXXX the realisation that she had slept for the last time under the roof of her little house .
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