He wanted no other answer . They lingered in the old garden until twilight , sweet as dusk in Eden must have been , crept over it . There was so much to talk over and recall -- things said and done and heard and thought and felt and misunderstood . `` I thought you loved Christine Stuart , '' Anne told him , as reproachfully as if she had not given him every reason to suppose that she loved Roy Gardner . Gilbert laughed boyishly . `` Christine was engaged to somebody in her home town . I knew it and she knew I knew it . When her brother graduated he told me his sister was coming to Kingsport the next winter to take music , and asked me if I would look after her a bit , as she knew no one and would be very lonely . So I did . And then I liked Christine for her own sake . She is one of the nicest girls I 've ever known . I knew college gossip credited us with being in love with each other . I did n't care . Nothing mattered much to me for a time there , after you told me you could never love me , Anne . There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you . I 've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school . '' `` I do n't see how you could keep on loving me when I was such a little fool , '' said Anne . `` Well , I tried to stop , '' said Gilbert frankly , `` not because I thought you what you call yourself , but because I felt sure there was no chance for me after Gardner came on the scene . But I could n't -- and I ca n't tell you , either , what it 's meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him , and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced . I believed it until one blessed day when I was sitting up after the fever .
I got a letter from Phil Gordon -- Phil Blake , rather -- XXXXX which she told me there was really nothing between you and Roy , and advised me to ` try again . '
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