`` Diana and Fred are in love with each other , '' she gasped . `` Oh , it does seem so ... so ... so HOPELESSLY grown up . '' Anne , of late , had not been without her suspicions that Diana was proving false to the melancholy Byronic hero of her early dreams . But as `` things seen are mightier than things heard , '' or suspected , the realization that it was actually so came to her with almost the shock of perfect surprise . This was succeeded by a queer , little lonely feeling ... as if , somehow , Diana had gone forward into a new world , shutting a gate behind her , leaving Anne on the outside . `` Things are changing so fast it almost frightens me , '' Anne thought , a little sadly . `` And I 'm afraid that this ca n't help making some difference between Diana and me . I 'm sure I ca n't tell her all my secrets after this ... she might tell Fred . And what CAN she see in Fred ? He 's very nice and jolly ... but he 's just Fred Wright . '' It is always a very puzzling question ... what can somebody see in somebody else ? But how fortunate after all that it is so , for if everybody saw alike ... well , in that case , as the old Indian said , `` Everybody would want my squaw . '' It was plain that Diana DID see something in Fred Wright , however Anne 's eyes might be holden . Diana came to Green Gables the next evening , a pensive , shy young lady , and told Anne the whole story in the dusky seclusion of the east gable . Both girls cried and kissed and laughed . `` I 'm so happy , '' said Diana , `` but it does seem ridiculous to think of me being engaged . '' `` What is it really like to be engaged ? '' asked Anne curiously . `` Well , that all depends on who you 're engaged to , '' answered Diana , with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not . `` It 's perfectly lovely to be engaged to Fred ... but I think it would be simply horrid to be engaged to anyone else . ''
`` There 's not much comfort for the rest of us in XXXXX , seeing that there is only one Fred , '' laughed Anne .
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