And I think it 's perfectly lovely of you to be planning already for your home o'dreams . '' Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase , `` home o'dreams , '' than it captivated her fancy and she immediately began the erection of one of her own . It was , of course , tenanted by an ideal master , dark , proud , and melancholy ; but oddly enough , Gilbert Blythe persisted in hanging about too , helping her arrange pictures , lay out gardens , and accomplish sundry other tasks which a proud and melancholy hero evidently considered beneath his dignity . Anne tried to banish Gilbert 's image from her castle in Spain but , somehow , he went on being there , so Anne , being in a hurry , gave up the attempt and pursued her aerial architecture with such success that her `` home o'dreams '' was built and furnished before Diana spoke again . `` I suppose , Anne , you must think it 's funny I should like Fred so well when he 's so different from the kind of man I 've always said I would marry ... the tall , slender kind ? But somehow I would n't want Fred to be tall and slender ... because , do n't you see , he would n't be Fred then . Of course , '' added Diana rather dolefully , `` we will be a dreadfully pudgy couple . But after all that 's better than one of us being short and fat and the other tall and lean , like Morgan Sloane and his wife . Mrs. Lynde says it always makes her think of the long and short of it when she sees them together . '' `` Well , '' said Anne to herself that night , as she brushed her hair before her gilt framed mirror , `` I am glad Diana is so happy and satisfied . But when my turn comes ... if it ever does ... I do hope there 'll be something a little more thrilling about it . But then Diana thought so too , once . I 've heard her say time and again she 'd never get engaged any poky commonplace way ... he 'd HAVE to do something splendid to win her . But she has changed . Perhaps I 'll change too . But I wo n't ... and I 'm determined I wo n't . Oh , I think these engagements are dreadfully unsettling things when they happen to your intimate friends . '' XXX A Wedding at the Stone House The last week in August came . Miss Lavendar was to be married in it . Two weeks later Anne and Gilbert would leave for Redmond College .
In a week 's time Mrs. Rachel Lynde would move to Green Gables and set up her lares and penates in the erstwhile spare room , which was already prepared XXXXX her coming .
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