`` Should be ! Do n't you know if it is there ? '' `` No . I only know it should be , from something I saw there in spring . Come on . We 'll pretend we are two children again and we 'll go the way of the wind . '' They started gaily off . Anne , remembering the unpleasantness of the preceding evening , was very nice to Gilbert ; and Gilbert , who was learning wisdom , took care to be nothing save the schoolboy comrade again . Mrs. Lynde and Marilla watched them from the kitchen window . `` That 'll be a match some day , '' Mrs. Lynde said approvingly . Marilla winced slightly . In her heart she hoped it would , but it went against her grain to hear the matter spoken of in Mrs. Lynde 's gossipy matter-of-fact way . `` They 're only children yet , '' she said shortly . Mrs. Lynde laughed good-naturedly . `` Anne is eighteen ; I was married when I was that age . We old folks , Marilla , are too much given to thinking children never grow up , that 's what . Anne is a young woman and Gilbert 's a man , and he worships the ground she walks on , as any one can see . He 's a fine fellow , and Anne ca n't do better . I hope she wo n't get any romantic nonsense into her head at Redmond . I do n't approve of them coeducational places and never did , that 's what .
I do n't believe , '' concluded Mrs. Lynde solemnly , `` XXXXX the students at such colleges ever do much else than flirt . ''
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