`` Phil , '' pleaded Anne , `` please go away and leave me alone for a little while . My world has tumbled into pieces . I want to reconstruct it . '' `` Without any Gilbert in it ? '' said Phil , going . A world without any Gilbert in it ! Anne repeated the words drearily . Would it not be a very lonely , forlorn place ? Well , it was all Gilbert 's fault . He had spoiled their beautiful comradeship . She must just learn to live without it . Chapter XXI Roses of Yesterday The fortnight Anne spent in Bolingbroke was a very pleasant one , with a little under current of vague pain and dissatisfaction running through it whenever she thought about Gilbert . There was not , however , much time to think about him . `` Mount Holly , '' the beautiful old Gordon homestead , was a very gay place , overrun by Phil 's friends of both sexes . There was quite a bewildering succession of drives , dances , picnics and boating parties , all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of `` jamborees '' ; Alec and Alonzo were so constantly on hand that Anne wondered if they ever did anything but dance attendance on that will-o ' - the-wisp of a Phil . They were both nice , manly fellows , but Anne would not be drawn into any opinion as to which was the nicer . `` And I depended so on you to help me make up my mind which of them I should promise to marry , '' mourned Phil . `` You must do that for yourself . You are quite expert at making up your mind as to whom other people should marry , '' retorted Anne , rather caustically . `` Oh , that 's a very different thing , '' said Phil , truly .
But the sweetest incident of Anne 's sojourn XXXXX Bolingbroke was the visit to her birthplace -- the little shabby yellow house in an out-of-the-way street she had so often dreamed about .
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