`` It does -- but I am not jealous , '' said Stella calmly . `` I love Anne and I like Roy . Everybody says she is making a brilliant match , and even Mrs. Gardner thinks her charming now . It all sounds as if it were made in heaven , but I have my doubts . Make the most of that , Aunt Jamesina . '' Roy asked Anne to marry him in the little pavilion on the harbor shore where they had talked on the rainy day of their first meeting . Anne thought it very romantic that he should have chosen that spot . And his proposal was as beautifully worded as if he had copied it , as one of Ruby Gillis ' lovers had done , out of a Deportment of Courtship and Marriage . The whole effect was quite flawless . And it was also sincere . There was no doubt that Roy meant what he said . There was no false note to jar the symphony . Anne felt that she ought to be thrilling from head to foot . But she was n't ; she was horribly cool . When Roy paused for his answer she opened her lips to say her fateful yes . And then -- she found herself trembling as if she were reeling back from a precipice . To her came one of those moments when we realize , as by a blinding flash of illumination , more than all our previous years have taught us . She pulled her hand from Roy 's . `` Oh , I ca n't marry you -- I ca n't -- I ca n't , '' she cried , wildly . Roy turned pale -- and also looked rather foolish .
He had -- small blame XXXXX him -- felt very sure .
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