1 00:01:46,648 --> 00:01:48,608 Where is sleep? 2 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:50,610 "Over the mountains of the moon, 3 00:01:50,819 --> 00:01:53,613 down the valley of the shadow, 4 00:01:53,822 --> 00:01:56,658 'neath the waves of the deep Gulf stream," 5 00:01:57,117 --> 00:01:58,618 replied the handsome Duke 6 00:01:58,952 --> 00:01:59,994 in dark, 7 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:01,121 languid tones. 8 00:02:18,763 --> 00:02:19,597 In dark... 9 00:02:20,181 --> 00:02:21,599 Languid tones. 10 00:02:26,771 --> 00:02:30,024 Dark, foreboding... 11 00:02:30,441 --> 00:02:33,611 Foreboding tones. 12 00:02:33,778 --> 00:02:36,614 He fervently stroked her alabaster brow, 13 00:02:36,781 --> 00:02:40,618 and she fell under his cloak of darkness. 14 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:06,436 Morgan, look. 15 00:03:06,603 --> 00:03:08,438 Do you think she needs help? 16 00:03:36,799 --> 00:03:37,800 Are you a... 17 00:03:39,594 --> 00:03:40,678 A journalist? 18 00:03:40,970 --> 00:03:42,680 No, a teacher. 19 00:03:42,972 --> 00:03:44,807 No, I'm a writer. 20 00:03:46,809 --> 00:03:48,686 Actually I write books. 21 00:03:48,978 --> 00:03:51,689 Oh. Books. 22 00:03:51,981 --> 00:03:52,690 Books. 23 00:03:52,982 --> 00:03:55,693 I hope nothing's spoiled, or missing. 24 00:03:55,985 --> 00:03:58,279 Doesn't matter. I keep it all filed away 25 00:03:58,655 --> 00:04:00,365 in my imagi- nation anyway. 26 00:04:01,908 --> 00:04:02,909 Morgan. 27 00:04:03,368 --> 00:04:05,912 Morgan, we'll be late for our luncheon. 28 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:10,792 Thank you. 29 00:04:11,042 --> 00:04:12,210 Excuse me. 30 00:04:25,014 --> 00:04:27,225 Children: No more pencils, no more books, 31 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,769 no more teacher's dirty looks 32 00:04:33,022 --> 00:04:33,773 bye, Barbara Shaw. 33 00:04:34,023 --> 00:04:35,316 Don't forget your lunch pail. 34 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:36,776 Girl: Bye, Shirley. Bye. 35 00:04:37,068 --> 00:04:38,778 Bye, Jacob. 36 00:04:39,028 --> 00:04:39,904 Good luck in your job at the smithy. 37 00:04:40,571 --> 00:04:41,781 Children: Goodbye, miss Shirley. 38 00:04:42,073 --> 00:04:43,783 ! Goodbye, miss Shirley. Bye-bye. 39 00:04:44,033 --> 00:04:45,785 Goodbye, miss Shirley, see you next year. 40 00:04:46,077 --> 00:04:47,787 Goodbye, miss Shirley. Goodbye, minnie may. 41 00:04:48,037 --> 00:04:49,789 Good bye, miss Shirley. 42 00:04:56,921 --> 00:04:57,964 Is that how you smoke it? 43 00:04:58,589 --> 00:05:00,842 Don't you know anything? 44 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:02,969 You gotta lick it to make the paper stick. 45 00:05:13,479 --> 00:05:14,230 What do you want? 46 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,232 My mama says smoking makes your mouth brown 47 00:05:16,482 --> 00:05:17,567 and your ears stick out. 48 00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:19,235 Your mother's an old windbag. 49 00:05:19,485 --> 00:05:21,237 No she is not. 50 00:05:21,487 --> 00:05:23,239 I'm going to tell miss Shirley you two have been smoking. 51 00:05:23,489 --> 00:05:26,242 You do and I'll lock you up and sic my dog on you. 52 00:05:26,492 --> 00:05:28,036 Will not. You can't catch me. 53 00:05:30,371 --> 00:05:32,248 Help! Let's see how you like being locked up, 54 00:05:32,498 --> 00:05:33,416 you little tattletale. 55 00:05:33,833 --> 00:05:35,293 Let me go! Let me go! 56 00:05:35,585 --> 00:05:37,378 I'm gonna tell on you two. 57 00:05:37,628 --> 00:05:40,340 Let me go. I'm gonna tell on you two. 58 00:05:42,592 --> 00:05:44,218 You two are bad boys. I'm gonna tell... 59 00:05:44,469 --> 00:05:46,220 See how you like that, you little tattletale. 60 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:48,222 Yeah, and we're gonna sic his dog on you 61 00:05:48,473 --> 00:05:49,474 if you say anything. 62 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,351 Help! 63 00:06:10,953 --> 00:06:14,874 Minnie may: 64 00:06:15,124 --> 00:06:17,877 I want out! 65 00:06:18,127 --> 00:06:19,879 Why, minnie may! 66 00:06:20,129 --> 00:06:22,840 Anthony pye and Tommy bell locked me in 67 00:06:23,091 --> 00:06:24,842 'cause I was going to tell on those two. 68 00:06:25,093 --> 00:06:26,844 They were smoking cigarettes. 69 00:06:27,095 --> 00:06:29,889 And Anthony's gonna sic his watchdog on me. 70 00:06:30,139 --> 00:06:31,849 He'll do no such thing. 71 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:34,852 Now you run along. Your mother will be wondering where you are. 72 00:06:35,103 --> 00:06:36,145 All right, miss Shirley. 73 00:06:54,622 --> 00:06:55,623 Oh, good day, miss Shirley. 74 00:06:55,832 --> 00:06:56,624 Good afternoon, Mr. Pye. 75 00:06:56,833 --> 00:06:58,626 Must be glad school's out. 76 00:06:58,835 --> 00:07:01,629 I hope my Anthony behaved himself this year. 77 00:07:01,921 --> 00:07:03,589 Anthony's grades have been quite good. 78 00:07:03,881 --> 00:07:05,299 And he is well- liked by everyone. 79 00:07:05,591 --> 00:07:07,593 I understand from minnie may Barry, 80 00:07:07,885 --> 00:07:09,595 you have an excellent watchdog looking out for you, Anthony. 81 00:07:09,887 --> 00:07:11,597 Oh, and that's a fact. 82 00:07:11,889 --> 00:07:13,599 No foxes around our chicken Coop this year, miss Shirley. 83 00:07:13,891 --> 00:07:16,602 A finer watchdog you'll never see. 84 00:07:16,894 --> 00:07:19,605 So minnie may was just telling me. 85 00:07:19,897 --> 00:07:22,608 Oh, and thank you, Anthony, for volun- teering with Tommy 86 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:25,153 to whitewash the outhouse for me next Monday. 87 00:07:25,611 --> 00:07:26,737 I hear you two are excellent painters. 88 00:07:27,405 --> 00:07:29,615 I'll be seeing you then, Monday morning at 9:00 o'clock. 89 00:07:29,907 --> 00:07:30,741 Good day. 90 00:07:32,743 --> 00:07:34,745 You're offo do some painting then, Anthony, are you? 91 00:08:05,234 --> 00:08:08,112 I'm sorry. I know you're closed, Mrs. Harrison, 92 00:08:08,404 --> 00:08:10,114 but I promised marilla I'd pick up the mail in town today. 93 00:08:10,364 --> 00:08:13,242 The postman, he left a registered card in our box yesterday. 94 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:15,119 Lucky you caught us, Anne Shirley. 95 00:08:15,369 --> 00:08:18,122 Don't know if I've seen anything come through today though. 96 00:08:18,414 --> 00:08:20,124 No. No, ma'am, nothing for green gables. 97 00:08:20,374 --> 00:08:23,127 But I have a registered card, Mrs. Sloane. 98 00:08:23,419 --> 00:08:25,129 Oh. Just a minute now. 99 00:08:25,379 --> 00:08:27,298 Oh, that's right. 100 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:30,092 I remember one of them big Manila envelopes 101 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:31,344 that you've been sending out recently 102 00:08:31,594 --> 00:08:32,595 did come back yesterday, 103 00:08:32,929 --> 00:08:34,597 registered mail. 104 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:37,099 That is right. Let's see. 105 00:08:37,350 --> 00:08:41,103 Right! Yes, here it is here. Now... 106 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:43,231 Can't see a thing without my glasses. 107 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,234 Got your name on it all right. 108 00:08:46,609 --> 00:08:50,112 Curtis publishing company, Boston. 109 00:08:50,363 --> 00:08:52,114 Ain't they magazine people? 110 00:08:52,365 --> 00:08:55,117 Must be a complimentary subscription or some such nuisance. 111 00:08:55,368 --> 00:08:57,119 Thanks so much for letting me in. 112 00:08:57,370 --> 00:08:59,121 Good afternoon, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Sloane. 113 00:09:19,141 --> 00:09:20,601 So! Ah! 114 00:09:20,768 --> 00:09:21,602 This is why you keep disap- pearing on me 115 00:09:21,769 --> 00:09:23,229 every time I plan to pick you up after school. 116 00:09:23,604 --> 00:09:24,605 Gilbert blythe! 117 00:09:24,772 --> 00:09:26,607 All this secrecy. 118 00:09:26,774 --> 00:09:28,609 You never have time to speak to your friends any more. 119 00:09:28,776 --> 00:09:31,320 Oh, you give that back or I won't speak to you again. 120 00:09:31,612 --> 00:09:33,114 Well, if you're going to be so touchy. 121 00:09:33,531 --> 00:09:34,532 Thank you. 122 00:09:36,617 --> 00:09:39,620 You know, people think you've been acting very peculiarly lately, 123 00:09:39,787 --> 00:09:41,622 and I might as well tell you so. 124 00:09:41,789 --> 00:09:44,375 Why didn't you show up at the carmody spring festival? 125 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:46,168 I saved a spot for you at our table. 126 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:49,589 I was busy. I was trying to get my finals marked. 127 00:09:49,797 --> 00:09:52,592 Anne, you had your finals marked and poed with the board before I did. 128 00:09:53,884 --> 00:09:55,595 What are you up to? 129 00:09:55,803 --> 00:09:57,597 Nothing! 130 00:09:57,847 --> 00:10:00,600 This is a complete- ly personal matter. 131 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:03,644 I suppose it must be if you can't keep your word any more. 132 00:10:03,894 --> 00:10:05,688 Good grief! 133 00:10:05,938 --> 00:10:07,690 You know how to try one's Patience, don't you? 134 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,614 Gil: Don't get up on your high horse with me, Anne Shirley. 135 00:10:14,822 --> 00:10:16,616 I cycled all the way from carmody to tell you something 136 00:10:16,866 --> 00:10:19,368 I found out about Diana Barry today. 137 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:23,623 You are a real pill, Gilbert blythe. 138 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:26,917 What about Diana Barry? 139 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:30,004 Uh-uh, not until you spill the beans. 140 00:10:30,338 --> 00:10:33,591 You won't say anything to your folks, 141 00:10:33,924 --> 00:10:35,885 or Jane Andrews, or Charlie Sloane? 142 00:10:36,135 --> 00:10:37,887 On my honour. 143 00:10:38,137 --> 00:10:40,890 And you promise you won't ever tease me about this? 144 00:10:41,140 --> 00:10:42,600 I wouldn't risk your anger. 145 00:10:46,604 --> 00:10:48,606 Dear miss Shirley: 146 00:10:48,773 --> 00:10:53,611 We regret to return the enclosed manuscript, "averil's atonement", 147 00:10:53,778 --> 00:10:56,614 but are unable to accept it for publication. 148 00:10:56,781 --> 00:10:58,616 Sincerely yours, 149 00:10:58,783 --> 00:11:01,202 woman's home journal magazine? 150 00:11:01,619 --> 00:11:03,704 You know the story I wrote this spring? 151 00:11:05,706 --> 00:11:06,707 I'm attempting to have it published. 152 00:11:08,876 --> 00:11:10,628 Anne, that's tremendous! 153 00:11:10,711 --> 00:11:12,838 Listen to this, everybody, 154 00:11:13,255 --> 00:11:14,590 avonlea's public school teacher, 155 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,801 soon to become world famous Canadian author... 156 00:11:17,593 --> 00:11:20,054 It hasn't happened yet, you fool. 157 00:11:20,304 --> 00:11:22,181 And don't you dare tell anyone. 158 00:11:24,684 --> 00:11:27,603 Now what's all the fuss about Diana Barry? 159 00:11:27,853 --> 00:11:30,606 Well, from what I understand, 160 00:11:30,856 --> 00:11:32,692 she's going on an extended vacation this summer. 161 00:11:34,610 --> 00:11:35,611 Is that all? 162 00:11:35,736 --> 00:11:37,613 Where is she going? 163 00:11:37,613 --> 00:11:39,615 You mean with whom is she going? 164 00:11:39,740 --> 00:11:40,616 All right. With whom then? 165 00:11:40,741 --> 00:11:42,618 What difference does it make? 166 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:44,620 Fred Wright obvi- ously makes a lot of difference to her. 167 00:11:45,246 --> 00:11:48,082 He's proposed and Diana has accepted. 168 00:11:50,084 --> 00:11:52,002 Proposed? 169 00:11:52,253 --> 00:11:54,422 Charlie Sloane found out from Fred himself. 170 00:11:54,839 --> 00:11:57,049 Roly-poly Fred Wright? 171 00:11:59,593 --> 00:12:01,595 But they hardly know each other. 172 00:12:04,140 --> 00:12:06,225 Of all the stupid, sentimental things for Diana to do. 173 00:12:07,601 --> 00:12:09,937 I didn't even know it was like this. 174 00:12:10,229 --> 00:12:11,480 She probably only accepted 175 00:12:11,647 --> 00:12:13,941 because Fred was the first person to ever ask her. 176 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:16,944 Don't be silly. Fred's a terrific fellow. 177 00:12:17,236 --> 00:12:19,697 Well, he better steer clear of me. 178 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:20,948 He has no business waltzing in, 179 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:22,950 stealing my best friend. 180 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:24,076 You're not jealous, are you? 181 00:12:24,827 --> 00:12:25,619 No. 182 00:12:27,079 --> 00:12:28,622 Just disappointed. 183 00:12:31,083 --> 00:12:33,085 Why do people have to grow up... 184 00:12:33,627 --> 00:12:36,505 And marry... change. 185 00:12:36,589 --> 00:12:38,466 Oh, you'd change. 186 00:12:38,591 --> 00:12:41,469 If someone ever admitted that they were head over heels for you, 187 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,471 you'd be swept off your feet in a moment. 188 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:44,472 I would not. 189 00:12:44,597 --> 00:12:48,184 And I defy anyone who would try and make me change. 190 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:49,602 You do? 191 00:12:59,695 --> 00:13:02,573 Last one to the bridge is a stuffed goose. 192 00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:08,370 Cheaters never prosper, Anne Shirley. 193 00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:13,626 Boy: Watch out, rover. 194 00:13:15,628 --> 00:13:16,629 Gil: Whoo! 195 00:13:20,216 --> 00:13:21,592 You've got it now, miss Shirley. 196 00:13:32,686 --> 00:13:34,605 Anne/gil: 197 00:13:37,691 --> 00:13:39,693 Anne: Oh, I'm sorry, Diana. 198 00:13:40,778 --> 00:13:42,696 Sorry, um... 199 00:13:42,947 --> 00:13:44,615 But Gil, he's... 200 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:45,783 He fell in the brook and... 201 00:13:47,535 --> 00:13:48,702 Well, thank you for the lovely walk, Diana. 202 00:13:48,953 --> 00:13:50,788 Diana: Oh, please thank your mother for the crochets. 203 00:13:51,121 --> 00:13:54,708 Myra gillis had 37 doilies when she got married, 204 00:13:54,959 --> 00:13:57,711 and i-I'm determined to have at least as many as she had. 205 00:13:57,962 --> 00:13:59,588 I supposed it would be impossible 206 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:01,757 to keep house with only 36 doilies. 207 00:14:02,007 --> 00:14:03,759 But I assure you, Mr. Wright, 208 00:14:04,009 --> 00:14:07,471 Diana will be the sweetest little homemaker in the world, 209 00:14:07,638 --> 00:14:10,766 so long as you can afford to let her keep up with the gillises. 210 00:14:11,016 --> 00:14:12,768 Well, I hope so. 211 00:14:13,018 --> 00:14:14,854 Uh, good day, ladies. Gilbert. 212 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:20,317 Well, I better go get my bicycle. 213 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:22,111 I'll talk to you ladies later. 214 00:14:22,611 --> 00:14:23,863 Bye. 215 00:14:24,113 --> 00:14:26,782 Anne Shirley... 216 00:14:27,032 --> 00:14:28,617 That was... 217 00:14:28,784 --> 00:14:30,786 I've never been so humil- iated in all my life. 218 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:32,872 That was the meanest... 219 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:37,793 How could you make fun of me in public? 220 00:14:38,043 --> 00:14:38,794 Diana... 221 00:14:39,044 --> 00:14:40,796 I wasn't making fun. 222 00:14:41,046 --> 00:14:41,839 I was just teasing. 223 00:14:43,841 --> 00:14:44,758 I'm sorry. 224 00:14:45,009 --> 00:14:46,760 You always have to be the centre of attention 225 00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:49,638 whenever Gilbert blythe is in anyone's company. 226 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:50,848 That's not true. 227 00:14:54,852 --> 00:14:57,479 Please forgive me, Diana. 228 00:14:57,855 --> 00:14:59,064 I didn't mean to pick a quarrel. 229 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,861 Why couldn't you have told me about you and Fred yourself? 230 00:15:04,111 --> 00:15:09,617 I feel like I've lost my best friend. 231 00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:11,869 You were... you were so busy, 232 00:15:12,119 --> 00:15:15,873 writing your book and marking exam papers. 233 00:15:16,123 --> 00:15:17,875 It just happened. 234 00:15:19,126 --> 00:15:21,712 And he asked me... 235 00:15:24,131 --> 00:15:25,507 I'm really happy. 236 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:29,845 But it does seem ridiculous 237 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:33,849 to think of me being engaged to Fred, doesn't it? 238 00:15:34,099 --> 00:15:36,852 Oh, I don't care what he looks like. 239 00:15:37,102 --> 00:15:38,854 He... he's got a good heart. 240 00:15:39,104 --> 00:15:40,940 He's so thoughtful. 241 00:15:41,190 --> 00:15:44,610 We'll probably make a pudgy old couple some day, 242 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:45,945 but it doesn't matter. 243 00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:51,617 I am glad for you, Diana. 244 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,620 Don't you ever mean to get married? 245 00:15:54,662 --> 00:15:56,622 Perhaps, if I meet the right one. 246 00:15:58,707 --> 00:16:00,626 What about Gilbert? 247 00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:03,420 Gilbert's just a chum. 248 00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:05,255 I don't care for him in that way. 249 00:16:05,506 --> 00:16:08,384 You know what my ideal is, Diana. 250 00:16:08,592 --> 00:16:12,388 Tall, irresistibly handsome, 251 00:16:12,596 --> 00:16:14,640 proud and melancholic. 252 00:16:16,517 --> 00:16:20,396 But people's ideals change sometimes. 253 00:16:20,604 --> 00:16:22,314 Mine wouldn't. 254 00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:25,150 I wouldn't care for any man who didn't fulfil them. 255 00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:26,610 What if you never meet him? 256 00:16:27,152 --> 00:16:29,405 Well, then I shall die an old maid. 257 00:16:29,613 --> 00:16:33,409 Oh, I suppose you're right to be discriminating. 258 00:16:33,617 --> 00:16:35,411 Half the men across the country will be courting you 259 00:16:35,619 --> 00:16:37,413 when your story is published. 260 00:16:37,621 --> 00:16:40,541 You're going to be famous, and I'll be so pud. 261 00:16:43,502 --> 00:16:44,503 What is it? 262 00:16:45,587 --> 00:16:47,506 Oh... 263 00:16:49,466 --> 00:16:52,344 "Woman's home journal" sent it back. 264 00:16:52,594 --> 00:16:54,346 What? 265 00:16:54,596 --> 00:16:56,348 Well, their editor must be crazy. 266 00:16:56,598 --> 00:16:58,350 What reason did he give? 267 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,436 No reason at all, just a printed slip 268 00:17:00,602 --> 00:17:02,146 saying it wasn't acceptable. 269 00:17:02,563 --> 00:17:04,440 That's ridiculous! They mustn't have read it. 270 00:17:04,606 --> 00:17:07,443 I'm going to cancel my subscription immediately. 271 00:17:07,609 --> 00:17:09,445 "Averil's atonement." 272 00:17:09,611 --> 00:17:14,450 It sounded so inspiring and romantic. 273 00:17:14,616 --> 00:17:16,452 But you can tell me truthfully, Diana, 274 00:17:16,618 --> 00:17:20,456 if you recall any major faults in my story. 275 00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:23,042 Well... 276 00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:28,464 T-The part where... Where averil makes the cake... 277 00:17:28,589 --> 00:17:33,427 Doesn't... it doesn't seem to match the rest of the story. 278 00:17:33,594 --> 00:17:36,680 That's one of the most romantic parts in the whole story. 279 00:17:37,347 --> 00:17:39,433 It's a well-known fact that great ladies of old believed 280 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,436 that the culinary arts also fed the soul. 281 00:17:42,603 --> 00:17:44,605 Well, I'll have to read it again 282 00:17:44,938 --> 00:17:47,441 to remember what my first opinion was. 283 00:17:47,608 --> 00:17:51,445 If you let me keep it, maybe I can suggest some changes. 284 00:17:51,612 --> 00:17:55,449 You don't know how discouraging it is to get a rejection, Diana. 285 00:17:55,616 --> 00:17:58,452 And right when I'm in the midst of writing a new epic: 286 00:17:58,619 --> 00:18:00,537 "Rosamund's revenge." 287 00:18:00,621 --> 00:18:03,540 This certainly takes the bloom off the Rose. 288 00:18:04,625 --> 00:18:06,543 Don't be discouraged. Anne Shirley! 289 00:18:06,627 --> 00:18:08,545 I'm not going to put up with this a day longer. 290 00:18:08,629 --> 00:18:10,547 I warned marilla not to let it happen again. 291 00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:12,508 Well, it has. 292 00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:14,510 Patience has ceased to be a virtue. 293 00:18:14,593 --> 00:18:16,512 I want this rumpus stopped right now. 294 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:19,515 If you could just calm down and tell me what the trouble is. 295 00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,517 Hah! Calm down. 296 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,520 First it was our potatoes. Then my June lilies, 297 00:18:24,603 --> 00:18:27,523 which Thomas planted on our 25th wedding anniversary. 298 00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:30,526 Now this darn Jersey cow has devoured almost 299 00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:32,069 all my prize- winning cabbages. 300 00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:33,529 And if tillie boulter walks away with 301 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:35,656 the red ribbon at the charlottetown exhibition, 302 00:18:36,073 --> 00:18:39,535 you can let marilla know I am holding her financially responsible. 303 00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:42,538 I'm sorry, Mrs. Lynde, because Dolly is my cow, not marilla's. 304 00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:45,541 Matthew bought her for me two years ago as a calf from Mr. Bell. 305 00:18:45,624 --> 00:18:49,002 Sorry! Well, sorry is not going to help the havoc 306 00:18:49,253 --> 00:18:51,046 this animal has made trampling through my cabbages. 307 00:18:51,296 --> 00:18:52,005 And if you think... 308 00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:53,006 I am sorry. 309 00:18:53,257 --> 00:18:55,008 But the fence that separates your potato field 310 00:18:55,259 --> 00:18:57,010 from our pasture is an eyesore. 311 00:18:57,261 --> 00:18:58,011 And if you kept it in better repair, 312 00:18:58,262 --> 00:18:59,471 Dolly wouldn't have broken in. 313 00:18:59,763 --> 00:19:02,182 A jail fence wouldn't keep that devil out. 314 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:06,103 And what's more, my Thomas has been far too ill the past six months 315 00:19:06,353 --> 00:19:07,187 to repair any fences. 316 00:19:07,604 --> 00:19:11,108 And I know one thing, you red-headed snippet, 317 00:19:11,358 --> 00:19:14,111 you'd be better employed fixing that fence yourself 318 00:19:14,361 --> 00:19:15,195 rather than mooning around, 319 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:18,198 wasting your time writing for some rubbishy magazine. 320 00:19:18,490 --> 00:19:20,117 I would rather spend my time profitably, 321 00:19:20,367 --> 00:19:22,119 than squander it in idle gossip, 322 00:19:22,369 --> 00:19:23,537 meddling in other people's affairs. 323 00:19:23,912 --> 00:19:25,122 Oh! 324 00:19:25,372 --> 00:19:27,124 I won't Cherish any hard feelings against you 325 00:19:27,374 --> 00:19:29,126 because of your narrow-minded opinions. 326 00:19:29,376 --> 00:19:31,128 Nothank goodness I have an imagination 327 00:19:31,378 --> 00:19:32,171 which allows me to understand 328 00:19:32,421 --> 00:19:35,090 how it must be to find a cow amongst prize-winning cabbages. 329 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:38,093 Dolly shall never break into your field again. 330 00:19:38,343 --> 00:19:40,095 I give you my word of honour 331 00:19:40,345 --> 00:19:42,347 on that point. Well! 332 00:19:42,598 --> 00:19:43,974 You just make sure 333 00:19:44,266 --> 00:19:45,100 that she doesn't. 334 00:19:51,607 --> 00:19:54,318 Whoa. Whoa, whoa. 335 00:19:54,610 --> 00:19:58,572 Well, marilla, I hope that canal horse destroys your tomato patch next. 336 00:19:58,614 --> 00:20:00,574 And don't expect any sympathy from your girl. 337 00:20:00,616 --> 00:20:03,619 I've always warned you she had a temper to match her hair. 338 00:20:05,621 --> 00:20:07,581 Oh, good lord. 339 00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:12,586 She can't possibly get out now 340 00:20:12,628 --> 00:20:14,588 unless she tears the fence down. 341 00:20:14,588 --> 00:20:17,382 I never realized Mrs. Lynde was such a crank. 342 00:20:17,591 --> 00:20:19,551 There's certainly nothing of a kindred spirit in her. 343 00:20:29,603 --> 00:20:31,855 You set your heart too much on frivolous things, 344 00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:34,566 and then crash down into despair 345 00:20:34,608 --> 00:20:36,568 when you don't get them. I know. 346 00:20:36,610 --> 00:20:40,572 I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. 347 00:20:40,614 --> 00:20:42,616 It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset. 348 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:45,577 Almost pays for the thud. 349 00:20:45,619 --> 00:20:46,578 Well, maybe it does, 350 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:49,581 but I'd rather walk calmly along, 351 00:20:49,623 --> 00:20:53,585 and do without both flying and thud. 352 00:20:57,214 --> 00:20:59,549 Anne: Martin's forgotten the cows on orchard slope. 353 00:21:01,385 --> 00:21:02,636 I was as polite as I could be 354 00:21:02,886 --> 00:21:04,638 under the circum- stances, marilla. 355 00:21:04,888 --> 00:21:05,764 And I apologized, 356 00:21:06,014 --> 00:21:08,767 despite her stinging personal remarks. 357 00:21:09,017 --> 00:21:12,646 Rachel specializes in getting under people's skin, I know, 358 00:21:12,896 --> 00:21:14,648 but you ought to have bit your tongue, Anne, 359 00:21:14,898 --> 00:21:17,651 seeing as we were in the wrong. 360 00:21:17,901 --> 00:21:20,654 No, I ought to have sold Dolly to Gilbert's father a month ago 361 00:21:20,904 --> 00:21:22,656 when he wanted to buy her. 362 00:21:22,906 --> 00:21:24,658 I thought it was just as well to wait till the auction, 363 00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:26,660 and let all the stock go together. 364 00:21:26,910 --> 00:21:29,788 Martin, there are two more cows. 365 00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,625 Rachel will get over this. 366 00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:37,504 Her nerves have been raw lately, and deservedly so. 367 00:21:37,587 --> 00:21:41,466 Thomas is pretty bad, and Dr. Spencer says 368 00:21:41,591 --> 00:21:43,593 that he won't be with us for very long. 369 00:21:47,389 --> 00:21:49,391 I hope she doesn't have to sell her farm. 370 00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:50,934 It'd be a terrible loss. 371 00:21:51,226 --> 00:21:52,978 And I know how we felt when Matthew died. 372 00:21:53,228 --> 00:21:56,523 Anne, I've wanted to talk to you about something for a while. 373 00:21:56,690 --> 00:22:00,068 I know you've been content enough here, 374 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:03,030 but I never feel at ease, 375 00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:07,242 thinking about how you have given up so much of your own opportunity. 376 00:22:07,659 --> 00:22:12,080 Marilla, I couldn't leave you alone here. 377 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:14,249 Besides, i'm... I'd probably make a much better teacher 378 00:22:14,708 --> 00:22:18,086 than a writer any day. Anne... 379 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:20,047 You have been my comfort and my joy 380 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:21,923 since Matthew passed away. 381 00:22:23,508 --> 00:22:25,010 But I promised myself 382 00:22:25,302 --> 00:22:27,929 when you gave up the Avery scholarship to stay home, 383 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:30,015 I'd make it up to you one day. 384 00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,601 I've never been sorry I've stayed for a moment. 385 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:41,443 Mr. Barry has really taken over the farm almost completely and... 386 00:22:41,610 --> 00:22:42,611 My eyesight is so much better now, 387 00:22:43,070 --> 00:22:45,614 I can manage with Martin. 388 00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:48,617 Perhaps one of the picard girls over in rustico 389 00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:51,119 could... Board with me for a while, 390 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:55,624 so you could dust off some of your ambitions if you like. 391 00:22:55,916 --> 00:22:57,626 What do you think about that? 392 00:22:57,709 --> 00:22:58,627 Oh, marilla! 393 00:22:58,752 --> 00:23:01,588 I feel as though someone's handed me the moon, 394 00:23:01,838 --> 00:23:03,632 and I don't exactly know what to do with it. 395 00:23:05,258 --> 00:23:07,594 Matthew and I spent 40 years looking after papa. 396 00:23:07,803 --> 00:23:10,597 Perhaps I never mentioned it before, but... 397 00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:12,599 I can't help but confess, 398 00:23:12,808 --> 00:23:15,644 it was with a regretful heart at times. 399 00:23:17,104 --> 00:23:20,607 You had a little bit of romance in your own life, marilla. 400 00:23:20,816 --> 00:23:22,609 You wouldn't think it to look at me, would you? 401 00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:26,613 But you can never tell about people by their outsides. 402 00:23:26,822 --> 00:23:31,618 Do you suppose that Mr. Blythe remembers that he was your Beau? 403 00:23:31,827 --> 00:23:33,620 Stuff and nonsense. 404 00:23:33,829 --> 00:23:36,623 No, no. That's enough now. 405 00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:37,999 No more foolishness. 406 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:41,628 Oh, it seems so funny and horrible 407 00:23:41,837 --> 00:23:44,589 to think of Diana marrying Fred, doesn't it? 408 00:23:44,798 --> 00:23:46,591 What is so horrible about it? 409 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,594 Well, he certainly isn't the wild, dashing young man 410 00:23:49,803 --> 00:23:51,596 Diana used to want to marry. 411 00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:53,807 Fred is... 412 00:23:54,641 --> 00:23:56,268 Extremely good. 413 00:23:56,643 --> 00:23:59,271 That is exactly what he should be. 414 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,316 Would you want to marry a wicked man? 415 00:24:03,567 --> 00:24:07,446 Well, I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. 416 00:24:07,612 --> 00:24:10,323 But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked... 417 00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:11,324 And wouldn't. 418 00:24:17,581 --> 00:24:19,458 You'll have more sense someday, I hope. 419 00:24:21,751 --> 00:24:24,129 I believe Anne Shirley just copied that story. 420 00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:27,632 I am sure I remember reading it in a newspaper years ago. 421 00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:30,886 Well, I'm sorry to hear she's taken to writing novels at all. 422 00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:33,722 Nobody born and bred in avonlea would do it. 423 00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:38,602 Been writing any more stories lately, miss Shirley? 424 00:24:38,727 --> 00:24:40,645 No, Mrs. Harrison. 425 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:42,647 Well, no offense meant. 426 00:24:42,898 --> 00:24:45,650 Mabel Sloane here says she found another one of them big Manila envelopes 427 00:24:45,901 --> 00:24:47,611 come through here a couple of weeks ago, that's all. 428 00:24:47,861 --> 00:24:48,653 Hmm, it was addressed to the 429 00:24:48,904 --> 00:24:51,656 rolling reliable baking powder company in Montreal. 430 00:24:51,907 --> 00:24:54,701 I suspicioned that somebody was trying for that prize 431 00:24:54,951 --> 00:24:57,662 that they're offering for the best story 432 00:24:57,913 --> 00:24:59,748 introducing their new baking powder. 433 00:24:59,998 --> 00:25:02,667 The address wasn't in your handwriting though. 434 00:25:02,959 --> 00:25:04,753 I should hope not. 435 00:25:05,003 --> 00:25:08,256 I'd never dream of competing for anything so disgraceful. 436 00:25:08,548 --> 00:25:12,719 It would almost be as bad as Jake Griffith's chataghua show. 437 00:25:12,969 --> 00:25:15,722 But then that's what comes of marilla cuthbert adopting an orphan 438 00:25:15,972 --> 00:25:18,725 from goodness knows where, or what kind of parents. 439 00:25:18,975 --> 00:25:19,809 Oh! 440 00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:23,813 Why, Anne, congratulations. 441 00:25:25,273 --> 00:25:27,817 You have such a way of putting avonlea on the map. 442 00:25:28,068 --> 00:25:29,736 Well... thank you. 443 00:25:29,986 --> 00:25:30,820 But what do you mean? 444 00:25:32,614 --> 00:25:34,699 Congratulations for what? 445 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:38,370 You were always such a terrible fake at modesty, Anne, 446 00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:39,746 even during public school. 447 00:25:39,996 --> 00:25:41,831 Well, there's nothing fake about the business 448 00:25:42,165 --> 00:25:44,751 Lawson's general store intends to do from all this. 449 00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:47,212 And I think that blue you're wearing 450 00:25:47,462 --> 00:25:49,714 is so dramatic for a young authoress. 451 00:25:49,965 --> 00:25:52,175 You almost look pretty in it. 452 00:25:53,969 --> 00:25:55,804 Don't say things you don't mean, Josie. 453 00:25:56,846 --> 00:25:59,266 That Anne Shirley is so smug. 454 00:26:00,475 --> 00:26:02,602 That girl always did give herself airs. 455 00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:06,648 Boys: Congratulations. 456 00:26:06,898 --> 00:26:07,941 Congratulations, Anne. 457 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:09,526 It's a wonderful story, Anne. 458 00:26:09,943 --> 00:26:11,319 Congratulations. 459 00:26:12,612 --> 00:26:14,239 Wonderful story, Anne. 460 00:26:14,489 --> 00:26:15,323 You deserve the best. 461 00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:20,245 Women: Congratulations. Congratulations, miss Shirley. 462 00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:23,248 Congratulations on your story, miss Shirley. 463 00:26:23,498 --> 00:26:25,333 I really like the bit about the cake. 464 00:26:32,465 --> 00:26:34,301 Great jehosophat! 465 00:26:45,729 --> 00:26:49,232 Anne Shirley, we've been trying to track you down everywhere. 466 00:26:49,482 --> 00:26:51,735 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you 467 00:26:52,068 --> 00:26:54,321 avonlea's famous authoress. 468 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,412 Father, come out here. 469 00:27:08,418 --> 00:27:10,420 Oh, my goodness, miss Shirley. 470 00:27:11,588 --> 00:27:13,298 I don't understand. 471 00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:15,300 You won the contest, you goose. 472 00:27:15,550 --> 00:27:17,385 And I knew you'd go and do it all behind our backs. 473 00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:19,304 Mr. Lawson: Quiet, everybody, quiet please. 474 00:27:21,556 --> 00:27:23,308 It is my great pleasure 475 00:27:23,558 --> 00:27:26,311 as official purveyor to avonlea 476 00:27:26,561 --> 00:27:29,314 of the rollings reliable baking powder company 477 00:27:29,564 --> 00:27:33,318 to read this, the following tribute. 478 00:27:33,568 --> 00:27:34,611 Uh, miss Anne Shirley, 479 00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:37,322 green gables, pei. 480 00:27:37,572 --> 00:27:38,323 Dear madam, 481 00:27:38,573 --> 00:27:41,326 we have much pleasure in informing you 482 00:27:41,576 --> 00:27:45,246 that your charming story, "averil's atonement", 483 00:27:45,538 --> 00:27:48,333 has won the $100 grand prize 484 00:27:48,583 --> 00:27:51,252 in our recent competi- tion for the best story 485 00:27:51,544 --> 00:27:54,339 introducing the name of our revered product. 486 00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,387 Uh, the prize will be presented by Mr. Charles Lawson 487 00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:01,846 of Lawson's general, avonlea. 488 00:28:03,598 --> 00:28:06,393 We have arranged publication of the story 489 00:28:06,601 --> 00:28:09,896 in several prominent newspapers across the country, 490 00:28:10,313 --> 00:28:12,482 and will supply it in pamphlet form 491 00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:15,402 for distribution among our patrons. 492 00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:17,696 Thanking you for the interest you have shown 493 00:28:17,987 --> 00:28:19,406 in supporting our enterprises, 494 00:28:19,614 --> 00:28:22,409 we remain yours very truly 495 00:28:22,617 --> 00:28:25,412 the rollings reliable... 496 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:27,455 Baking powder company. 497 00:28:29,999 --> 00:28:32,502 You'll sign mine, won't you? Here 498 00:28:32,877 --> 00:28:35,422 oh, and I'm sure miss Shirley will be happy 499 00:28:35,588 --> 00:28:36,506 to sign everybody's brochures. 500 00:28:36,589 --> 00:28:40,176 And don't forget your purchase of this remarkable product. 501 00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:41,469 Next. Anne! 502 00:28:43,471 --> 00:28:46,391 Oh, I'm wild with delight. Ah! 503 00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,477 I was sure it would win when I sent it into the competition. 504 00:28:50,478 --> 00:28:52,397 Diana Barry! Yes I did. 505 00:28:52,605 --> 00:28:54,399 I thought of your story in a minute 506 00:28:54,607 --> 00:28:56,401 when I saw the ad in the paper. 507 00:28:56,609 --> 00:28:58,486 Man: Miss Shirley, will you sign this for my daughter? 508 00:29:00,697 --> 00:29:01,573 Thank you. 509 00:29:01,614 --> 00:29:03,575 Well I was going to tell you to send it in yourself, 510 00:29:03,616 --> 00:29:05,952 but I figured you had so little faith left in it, you wouldn't. 511 00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:07,579 So I sent my copy. 512 00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:09,581 Then if it hadn't won, you'd never have known, 513 00:29:09,622 --> 00:29:11,791 because the stories that failed weren't being sent back. 514 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:19,466 Why, Anne, you don't seem a bit pleased. 515 00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:22,343 Of course I couldn't be anything but pleased. 516 00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:23,678 It was the gestureof a true friend 517 00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:25,555 to try to boost my spirits. 518 00:29:26,097 --> 00:29:28,099 But there isn't a word about... 519 00:29:28,975 --> 00:29:30,602 Baking powder. 520 00:29:30,852 --> 00:29:32,604 Oh, I put that in. It was easy as a wink. 521 00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:34,606 You know the scene where averil makes the cake? 522 00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:36,608 Well, I just stated that she used rollings reliable, 523 00:29:36,858 --> 00:29:38,610 and that's why it turned out so well. 524 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:40,737 See? And the here, in the last paragraph 525 00:29:41,154 --> 00:29:44,574 where percival clasps averil in his arms and says. 526 00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:46,576 "Sweetheart, the beautiful coming years 527 00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:49,579 will bring us the fulfilment of our house of dreams." 528 00:29:50,079 --> 00:29:52,957 I added, "in which we will never use any baking powder 529 00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,001 except rollings reliable." 530 00:29:56,377 --> 00:29:57,629 Oh-h! 531 00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:00,548 Come on. I have the buggy. I'll take you home. 532 00:30:03,593 --> 00:30:05,553 You've won $100. 533 00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:07,555 And prissy Grant told me that "Canadian women" 534 00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:09,849 only paid $5 a story. 535 00:30:13,269 --> 00:30:16,606 I can't take it. It's rightfully yours, Diana. 536 00:30:16,898 --> 00:30:19,150 You sent the story in and made the alterations. 537 00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:22,403 I certainly wouldn't have sent it. 538 00:30:22,612 --> 00:30:23,655 So you have to take it. 539 00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:25,490 I'd like to see myself! 540 00:30:25,657 --> 00:30:27,617 It wasn't any trouble, Anne. 541 00:30:27,742 --> 00:30:29,619 The honour of being the best friend of the prize winner 542 00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:31,621 is enough for me 543 00:30:31,746 --> 00:30:33,581 I'm so glad for your sake. 544 00:30:37,293 --> 00:30:39,295 I think you're the sweetest and truest friend 545 00:30:39,629 --> 00:30:41,256 in the world, Diana. 546 00:30:41,589 --> 00:30:43,174 I will buy your wedding gift with this. 547 00:30:43,466 --> 00:30:45,635 Don't you dare spend it all on me. 548 00:30:46,052 --> 00:30:49,597 I got a letter today from our dear old teacher, miss Stacey. 549 00:30:50,056 --> 00:30:53,142 She is head of the king's county board of education in new brunswick. 550 00:30:53,393 --> 00:30:56,145 What a promotion. Well, apparently, 551 00:30:56,396 --> 00:30:59,148 there's a position she's recommended me for 552 00:30:59,399 --> 00:31:01,234 at a ladies' college in kingsport. 553 00:31:01,484 --> 00:31:03,236 How flattering! 554 00:31:03,486 --> 00:31:05,238 You wouldn't actually leave, would you? 555 00:31:05,488 --> 00:31:08,283 No, but I ought to reply anyway. 556 00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:10,243 She's gone to all this trouble, 557 00:31:10,493 --> 00:31:11,619 and I would... 558 00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:15,248 Stop, Diana! 559 00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:16,875 Anne! 560 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:18,251 You'll ruin your dress 561 00:31:18,501 --> 00:31:19,627 in that muddy field. Ruin it! 562 00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:23,631 Oh, she'll never get that cow out by herself. 563 00:31:30,471 --> 00:31:31,347 Come back! 564 00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:34,851 Stop! 565 00:31:37,604 --> 00:31:40,231 Anne Shirley, you're being ridiculous. 566 00:31:40,481 --> 00:31:43,234 Get out of this field this minute. 567 00:31:43,484 --> 00:31:45,361 I don't care about my dress. 568 00:31:48,823 --> 00:31:52,368 I must get the cow out before Rachel lynde sees her. 569 00:31:56,664 --> 00:31:59,083 Go on, Diana, run. 570 00:31:59,375 --> 00:32:00,460 Corner her. 571 00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:04,339 That's it, Diana. 572 00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:05,715 Now don't frighten her. 573 00:32:10,637 --> 00:32:12,889 This is what we've got to do. 574 00:32:14,599 --> 00:32:15,600 Maybe if we can get a hold of her, 575 00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:18,853 we can force her over the fence into our field. 576 00:32:19,270 --> 00:32:21,147 Okay, you fill the gap, 577 00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:22,523 and I'm going to make a run for it, 578 00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:23,524 straight towards her. 579 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:25,526 With any luck, she'll jump the fence. 580 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:26,527 You don't mean you're going to actually 581 00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:28,529 walk through that mulch, do you? 582 00:32:29,238 --> 00:32:31,532 It's the lesser of the two evils, Diana. 583 00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,619 What if she was going to get into Rachel's cabbage patch again? 584 00:32:47,590 --> 00:32:50,510 All right, I have the gap blocked. 585 00:32:50,593 --> 00:32:52,512 Come here, Dolly. 586 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:54,514 Good girl. 587 00:32:54,597 --> 00:32:56,599 Shoo. Come on. 588 00:32:57,225 --> 00:32:58,685 Wretched cow. 589 00:33:01,604 --> 00:33:04,607 Oh, don't even think about Rachel's cabbages. 590 00:33:12,615 --> 00:33:14,617 Come here, you stupid... 591 00:33:14,617 --> 00:33:16,619 Both: 592 00:33:17,620 --> 00:33:20,623 Sorry. 593 00:33:21,124 --> 00:33:22,166 Gil: Well, 594 00:33:22,458 --> 00:33:24,627 the elegant and illustrious miss Shirley. 595 00:33:24,627 --> 00:33:26,587 Uh, relaxed while seeking out ideas 596 00:33:26,629 --> 00:33:28,589 for her next rolling reliable's... 597 00:33:28,589 --> 00:33:30,591 Writing assignment, I presume. 598 00:33:30,591 --> 00:33:33,511 Well, do you suppose I'm here to chat with the bullfrogs? 599 00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:34,595 Be a gentleman. 600 00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:40,184 You'd have been better off selling her last month 601 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:41,602 when dad offered to buy her. 602 00:33:41,602 --> 00:33:44,605 Well, I'll sell Dolly to him right now if he wants her. 603 00:33:45,606 --> 00:33:46,524 Man: 604 00:33:49,318 --> 00:33:50,987 You may have our darn Jersey 605 00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:52,613 any time you want her, Mr. Blythe. 606 00:33:52,780 --> 00:33:54,615 This very minute for that matter. 607 00:33:54,782 --> 00:33:57,618 Done! 608 00:33:57,660 --> 00:34:01,622 I'll give you the $20 I offered before. 609 00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,624 Gil can drive her over to carmody right now. 610 00:34:03,666 --> 00:34:05,626 She'll go to town with the rest of the shipment this evening. 611 00:34:05,752 --> 00:34:08,588 I promised Mr. Reed of Brighton a Jersey. 612 00:34:11,966 --> 00:34:13,593 What will marilla say? 613 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:14,969 She won't care. 614 00:34:15,595 --> 00:34:17,597 Dolly was my cow anyway. 615 00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:21,601 It's not likely she'll bring more than $20 at the auction. 616 00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:23,603 But when Rachel sees this field, 617 00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,605 she'll know Dolly was loose. 618 00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:28,608 Anne, I'll be over this afternoon with your $20. 619 00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:30,610 Well, it's taught me a lesson, 620 00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:33,613 not to stake my word of honour on cows. 621 00:34:33,738 --> 00:34:35,615 Mr. Blythe: 622 00:34:39,660 --> 00:34:40,661 How do you think a mother would feel 623 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,623 if she found her child tattooed all over 624 00:34:43,664 --> 00:34:46,626 with a baking powder advertisement? 625 00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,628 I loved my story, 626 00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:50,588 and I wrote it out of the best that was in me. 627 00:34:51,130 --> 00:34:52,590 Ah, you're just tired. 628 00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:57,595 Besides, why should you care? 629 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,598 100 bucks is more than you make in two months teaching anyway. 630 00:35:00,807 --> 00:35:04,602 Josie pye and tillie boulter can't wait to pounce on it. 631 00:35:04,811 --> 00:35:06,604 Ah, they're spiteful old cats. 632 00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:09,607 You're just the first person in pokey old avonlea 633 00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:10,650 to try anything like that. 634 00:35:15,655 --> 00:35:19,617 All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. 635 00:35:20,284 --> 00:35:22,120 Mad to think I could write anything better 636 00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:23,746 than a baking powder advertisement. 637 00:35:26,666 --> 00:35:30,628 This has dampened any spark of ambition. 638 00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:33,589 I shall never write another story again. 639 00:35:33,673 --> 00:35:36,467 Well, I wouldn't give up altogether. 640 00:35:38,636 --> 00:35:41,597 Maybe if you just let your characters speak everyday English 641 00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:44,600 instead of all that high- faluting mumbo-jumbo. 642 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:48,604 You think my story's full of faults too, don't you? 643 00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:50,606 "Wilt thou give up thy garter, 644 00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:52,608 oh, fairest of the fair?" 645 00:35:52,817 --> 00:35:54,610 Anne, nobody speaks that way. 646 00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:55,695 And look at that sad percival 647 00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:57,613 who sits around mooning the entire time. 648 00:35:57,822 --> 00:35:59,740 He never lets the girl get a word in edgewise. 649 00:36:01,033 --> 00:36:02,618 In real life, she'd have pitched him. 650 00:36:02,910 --> 00:36:05,538 His poetry would win any girl's heart. 651 00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:11,627 Well, if you want my opinion, miss Shirley, 652 00:36:11,919 --> 00:36:13,629 I'd write about places I knew something of 653 00:36:13,921 --> 00:36:15,131 and people that spoke everyday English 654 00:36:15,590 --> 00:36:17,884 instead of these silly schoolgirl romances. 655 00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:19,927 I don't share your opinion. 656 00:36:24,724 --> 00:36:26,601 I am not your horse, Mr. Blythe. 657 00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:29,604 I was just trying to give you a bit of friendly advice. 658 00:36:29,896 --> 00:36:31,606 Is that so? 659 00:36:31,772 --> 00:36:32,607 Take the $100, 660 00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:35,610 and write a real story about the people you care about, 661 00:36:35,902 --> 00:36:37,612 right here in avonlea. 662 00:36:37,904 --> 00:36:39,739 Well you certainly wouldn't be one of them. 663 00:36:44,744 --> 00:36:47,705 "Pitching" and "mooning"? 664 00:36:47,955 --> 00:36:49,707 You know, 665 00:36:49,957 --> 00:36:52,627 you're about as intellectual as Charlie, 666 00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:55,630 and moody and Fred and all the rest of the boys 667 00:36:55,922 --> 00:36:58,591 who could only think of finding some silly girl to marry 668 00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:00,593 and keep house for them. 669 00:37:00,801 --> 00:37:03,596 Well, you can cry and feel sorry for yourself all you want, 670 00:37:03,804 --> 00:37:04,805 but it won't help you write a betterovel. 671 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:17,693 Will you still come to Fred's clambake with me next Tuesday? 672 00:37:19,987 --> 00:37:21,822 Listen, Anne, I'm sorry. 673 00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:24,617 Will you let me walk you back? 674 00:37:24,825 --> 00:37:25,701 I was just trying to be helpful. 675 00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:29,330 You... you know you get my back up sometimes. 676 00:37:32,833 --> 00:37:34,835 Listen, I'm sorry. What else can I do? 677 00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:38,673 Let me get a word in edgewise once in a while, 678 00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:40,675 before I pitch you! 679 00:38:00,903 --> 00:38:01,904 Whoa! 680 00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:07,994 Good day, marilla. 681 00:38:08,494 --> 00:38:10,538 Well... John blythe. 682 00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:15,418 We haven't seen you around these parts much lately. 683 00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:19,588 Well, I haven't much time for social calls nowadays. 684 00:38:22,508 --> 00:38:24,385 Old place still looks as pretty though. 685 00:38:24,593 --> 00:38:28,389 The old buildings are getting worn down. 686 00:38:28,597 --> 00:38:30,891 But people in avonlea still say 687 00:38:31,350 --> 00:38:34,395 that it's the loveliest old spot on the north shore. 688 00:38:34,603 --> 00:38:35,938 Oh, it is that. 689 00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:42,111 Some things never change even in 30 years. 690 00:38:45,531 --> 00:38:46,991 I'm looking for my boy. 691 00:38:47,408 --> 00:38:48,200 Yes. 692 00:38:49,535 --> 00:38:51,620 Anne and he are walking by the pond. 693 00:38:52,288 --> 00:38:53,539 Maybe... 694 00:38:53,622 --> 00:38:55,875 Would you like to sit a while, 695 00:38:56,292 --> 00:38:57,418 till they come back? 696 00:38:57,626 --> 00:38:59,420 Thanks. 697 00:38:59,628 --> 00:39:02,381 But we're taking a shipment into charlottetown before dark. 698 00:39:03,799 --> 00:39:05,593 I'd best go and find him. 699 00:39:10,598 --> 00:39:12,600 Anne? What about your $20? 700 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:14,602 For the cow. 701 00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:26,614 The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it? 702 00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:27,948 Good day, marilla. 703 00:39:50,596 --> 00:39:53,474 There, there. 704 00:39:53,599 --> 00:39:57,478 You take things too much to heart, Anne Shirley. 705 00:39:57,603 --> 00:39:59,480 Oh, marilla, 706 00:39:59,605 --> 00:40:02,483 it's been such a Jonah day, 707 00:40:02,608 --> 00:40:04,485 with rollings reliable, 708 00:40:04,610 --> 00:40:07,488 and Dolly, and Gilbert. 709 00:40:07,613 --> 00:40:10,491 Now, now, Jonah days come to everybody. 710 00:40:10,616 --> 00:40:12,576 God knows best. 711 00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:14,870 You used to say... 712 00:40:16,622 --> 00:40:19,500 "Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes." 713 00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:21,377 Do you remember? 714 00:40:23,629 --> 00:40:25,506 Oh, what a girl you were 715 00:40:25,589 --> 00:40:28,467 for making mistakes in them days. 716 00:40:28,592 --> 00:40:32,471 Hmmm? 717 00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:34,974 I used to think you were possessed. 718 00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:38,018 Do you mind the time you dyed your hair? 719 00:40:39,603 --> 00:40:41,605 Oh lord. 720 00:40:42,022 --> 00:40:45,484 Oh, what a worry my red hair used to be. 721 00:40:45,609 --> 00:40:48,487 I'm afraid I've never been able 722 00:40:48,612 --> 00:40:51,073 to endure personal criticism very well. 723 00:40:51,615 --> 00:40:54,618 Gilbert gave his honest opinion of my story this afternoon. 724 00:40:56,620 --> 00:40:59,498 My... my temper... It always gets the better of me. 725 00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:02,585 I whipped him as hard as I could. 726 00:41:02,626 --> 00:41:04,462 I'm glad to hear it. 727 00:41:04,628 --> 00:41:07,548 The blythes have always been far too opinionated 728 00:41:07,590 --> 00:41:09,550 for their own good. 729 00:41:09,592 --> 00:41:12,553 No, marilla. He was right. 730 00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:15,556 And I've made a terrible idiot of myself. 731 00:41:15,598 --> 00:41:18,559 You don't know how spiteful I was. 732 00:41:18,601 --> 00:41:21,312 I can imagine. 733 00:41:21,604 --> 00:41:24,315 Our friendship... It won't ever be the same now. 734 00:41:24,607 --> 00:41:27,568 Why can't he just be sensible and... 735 00:41:27,610 --> 00:41:30,362 Instead of acting like a sentimental schoolboy. 736 00:41:32,364 --> 00:41:33,616 Because he loves you. 737 00:41:34,783 --> 00:41:35,826 He loves me? 738 00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:39,580 I can't know why. 739 00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:43,709 Because you make Josie pye and Ruby gillis 740 00:41:43,959 --> 00:41:49,673 and all of those wishy-washy young ladies who've waltzed by him 741 00:41:49,924 --> 00:41:52,801 look like spineless nothings. 742 00:41:53,802 --> 00:41:54,762 But Gil and I... 743 00:41:56,805 --> 00:42:00,100 He's hardly my idea of a romantic suitor. 744 00:42:00,601 --> 00:42:03,562 You have tricked something out of that imagination of yours 745 00:42:03,729 --> 00:42:05,773 that you call romance. 746 00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:09,777 Have you forgotten how he gave up avonlea school for you, 747 00:42:10,027 --> 00:42:11,779 so that you could stay here with me? 748 00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:14,615 He picked you up every day in his carriage, 749 00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:16,909 so that you could study your courses together. 750 00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:21,789 Don't toss it away, Anne, 751 00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:24,792 for some ridiculous ideal 752 00:42:25,042 --> 00:42:26,794 that doesn't exist. 753 00:42:27,044 --> 00:42:28,254 Hmmm? 754 00:42:29,922 --> 00:42:33,467 Now you come downstairs and see if a good cup of tea 755 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:38,764 and some of those plum puffs that I made today don't hearten you. 756 00:42:40,224 --> 00:42:44,353 Plum puffs won't minister to a mind diseased. 757 00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:46,772 And a world that has crumbled into pieces. 758 00:42:47,022 --> 00:42:50,776 Well, I'm glad to see that your dented spirits 759 00:42:51,026 --> 00:42:52,903 haven't injured your tongue. 760 00:43:07,126 --> 00:43:10,546 Suppose it's just as well you sold the darn cow... 761 00:43:13,966 --> 00:43:17,553 Though you do do things in a dreadful headlong fashion. 762 00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:22,975 I only pray that Rachel doesn't burst a blood vessel 763 00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:24,935 when she sees her potato fields today. 764 00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:29,857 I've decided to write miss Stacey, 765 00:43:30,107 --> 00:43:33,611 and ask her for more particulars on this ladies' college. 766 00:43:33,986 --> 00:43:35,613 I think that's a wise idea, Anne. 767 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,869 Go out and find me a couple of eggs, will you? 768 00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:43,871 I don't know how in heaven's name 769 00:43:44,121 --> 00:43:45,873 Dolly got out of that pen. 770 00:43:46,123 --> 00:43:48,000 She must have just broken some of the boards. 771 00:44:11,023 --> 00:44:12,941 Oh no! 772 00:44:13,192 --> 00:44:15,944 Marilla, Dolly's here! 773 00:44:16,195 --> 00:44:19,948 Anne, what in heaven's name is the matter with you? 774 00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:20,949 What will I do? 775 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,161 Oh, this is terrible and it's all my fault. 776 00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:26,789 I must learn to reflect a little 777 00:44:27,081 --> 00:44:28,957 before I go charging ahead recklessly. 778 00:44:29,208 --> 00:44:31,960 Anne Shirley, you are the most exasperating girl. 779 00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:33,962 What is it that you've done? 780 00:44:34,213 --> 00:44:35,923 I've sold Rachel lynde's Jersey cow, 781 00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:37,925 the one they bought in carmody last spring, 782 00:44:38,175 --> 00:44:39,593 to Mr. Blythe, 783 00:44:39,802 --> 00:44:42,054 and Dolly is here this very minute in the milking pen. 784 00:44:42,304 --> 00:44:44,598 Anne, are you dreaming? 785 00:44:44,890 --> 00:44:45,933 I only wish I were. 786 00:44:46,183 --> 00:44:47,935 There's no dream about it, 787 00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:50,521 though it's very much like a nightmare. 788 00:44:50,896 --> 00:44:52,940 That is Dolly. 789 00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:54,942 Rachel lynde's cow is in charlottetown by now. 790 00:44:55,192 --> 00:44:57,611 Marilla, I thought I was finished getting into scrapes, 791 00:44:57,945 --> 00:45:02,032 and here I am in the very worst one I ever was in my entire life. 792 00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:03,075 What can I do? 793 00:45:03,325 --> 00:45:05,994 Do? There is nothing to do 794 00:45:06,245 --> 00:45:08,038 but to go and tell Rachel the truth. 795 00:45:08,288 --> 00:45:10,999 You are just going to have to learn to settle down 796 00:45:11,250 --> 00:45:12,126 and pay heed to things. 797 00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:15,504 Anne: I've humiliated myself 798 00:45:15,921 --> 00:45:17,589 into the very dust. 799 00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:21,093 Maybe she'd accept a plate of plum puffs as a peace offering. 800 00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:34,022 Anne: Oh, no. 801 00:45:34,273 --> 00:45:36,024 If she's that cross, what will she be 802 00:45:36,275 --> 00:45:37,192 when I say what I've done? 803 00:45:37,609 --> 00:45:40,154 Marilla: If she gives you the chance to say anything at all. 804 00:45:43,157 --> 00:45:44,616 Afternoon, Thomas. 805 00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:46,076 Afternoon, marilla. 806 00:45:46,368 --> 00:45:48,036 Afternoon, Rachel. Marilla. 807 00:45:48,287 --> 00:45:51,039 Anne. I'm glad you've come. 808 00:45:51,290 --> 00:45:53,167 I certainly had no intention of visiting you people 809 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:56,503 after being flown at as I was on my last visit. 810 00:45:56,670 --> 00:46:00,090 Well, it would appear that some kind of... 811 00:46:00,340 --> 00:46:02,217 Kafuffle has come out of this. 812 00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:04,094 Anne would like to... 813 00:46:04,344 --> 00:46:05,095 Please, marilla, 814 00:46:05,345 --> 00:46:07,097 I'm not finished yet. On reflection, 815 00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:10,100 I realized that I was partly to blame. 816 00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:12,102 I had no right to be so ill-tempered with you, 817 00:46:12,352 --> 00:46:14,104 and I'm not one of them that can never be brought 818 00:46:14,354 --> 00:46:16,106 to own up to their mistakes. 819 00:46:16,356 --> 00:46:18,108 I'd like to apologize to you, 820 00:46:18,358 --> 00:46:19,109 Anne Shirley, 821 00:46:19,359 --> 00:46:21,487 and I wonder if you'd sign my copy 822 00:46:21,695 --> 00:46:23,697 of your "averil's atonement"? 823 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,116 The money they pay for such lies is perfectly amazing, but... 824 00:46:26,366 --> 00:46:29,119 I read it to my Thomas and we were both moved. 825 00:46:29,369 --> 00:46:30,120 I'm much obliged to you, 826 00:46:30,370 --> 00:46:32,122 as it's the only entertainment he's had 827 00:46:32,372 --> 00:46:33,123 for the past six months. 828 00:46:33,373 --> 00:46:36,126 I laughed so hard, I'm not sure it wasn't good for my heart. 829 00:46:36,376 --> 00:46:38,253 I'm so pleased. 830 00:46:41,215 --> 00:46:43,217 Come and lay off your things. 831 00:46:43,592 --> 00:46:45,093 You'll stay to tea, won't you? 832 00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:47,221 Thank you, Rachel. 833 00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:54,603 Rachel: It's nothing short of a wonder 834 00:46:54,853 --> 00:46:57,105 how you've improved, Anne, in looks and talent. 835 00:46:57,356 --> 00:47:00,192 I'm not overly partial to the pale, wide-eyes style myself. 836 00:47:00,442 --> 00:47:02,194 I prefer more snap and colour. 837 00:47:02,444 --> 00:47:05,989 But you do make them other avolea girls with showy good looks 838 00:47:06,281 --> 00:47:07,199 seem kind of overdone. 839 00:47:07,449 --> 00:47:10,160 Like my June lilies alongside them big, red peonies. 840 00:47:10,410 --> 00:47:11,203 That's what. 841 00:47:11,453 --> 00:47:13,205 Here's your tea, Thomas. 842 00:47:13,455 --> 00:47:14,248 I don't want any tea. 843 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:17,209 Now, Thomas, you just finish your nap here, 844 00:47:17,459 --> 00:47:18,460 and get some fresh air. 845 00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:24,174 I really... I wanted to confess something to you, Mrs. Lynde. 846 00:47:24,424 --> 00:47:26,510 It's about the Jersey cow. 847 00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:30,055 I saw my trampled potato field this morning. 848 00:47:30,347 --> 00:47:32,266 Never mind, Anne. It makes no difference now. 849 00:47:33,517 --> 00:47:36,186 If only it were that, Mrs. Lynde. 850 00:47:36,436 --> 00:47:37,938 But it's 10 times worse. 851 00:47:38,313 --> 00:47:40,315 Well, you're never safe from surprise till you're dead. 852 00:47:40,566 --> 00:47:43,193 Don't tell me she's done in the last of my cabbages too. 853 00:47:43,443 --> 00:47:45,195 It's not the cabbages, Mrs. Lynde, 854 00:47:45,445 --> 00:47:46,613 and I'll tell you everything. 855 00:47:46,989 --> 00:47:48,198 But please don't interrupt. 856 00:47:48,448 --> 00:47:49,199 It's making me nervous. 857 00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:50,284 Thomas: Rachel! 858 00:47:50,617 --> 00:47:52,202 Thomas, you're supposed to be snoozing. 859 00:47:52,452 --> 00:47:55,205 You see, Diana and I chased a certain Jersey cow 860 00:47:55,455 --> 00:47:57,332 out of your potato field yesterday. 861 00:47:57,624 --> 00:48:00,294 Well, you can't imagine what a difficult time we had. 862 00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:02,337 I was so dreadfully tired and wet 863 00:48:02,588 --> 00:48:04,256 and cross after it all, 864 00:48:04,548 --> 00:48:06,592 well, I sold the cow on the spot 865 00:48:06,925 --> 00:48:08,343 to the blythes for $20. 866 00:48:09,595 --> 00:48:11,680 Tsk, tsk, I hope you're not vexed with her, marilla. 867 00:48:11,930 --> 00:48:13,682 She should have consulted you first. 868 00:48:13,932 --> 00:48:14,808 So long as my cabbages are safe, 869 00:48:15,225 --> 00:48:17,269 we'll just pretend it didn't happen. 870 00:48:17,644 --> 00:48:18,687 Anne: You see, this morning, 871 00:48:18,937 --> 00:48:21,815 I found my Dolly still shut up in our milking pen. 872 00:48:22,065 --> 00:48:23,817 It was your cow... 873 00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:27,696 That Anne sold to John blythe, Rachel. 874 00:48:27,946 --> 00:48:29,698 And it was shipped out right away 875 00:48:29,948 --> 00:48:31,700 on the afternoon train by Mr. Blythe. 876 00:48:31,950 --> 00:48:33,744 Marilla: You'll find that our Jersey is as good as yours, 877 00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:36,705 or perhaps you'd prefer the $20. 878 00:48:36,955 --> 00:48:38,707 Marilla cuthbert, 879 00:48:38,957 --> 00:48:40,709 we paid more than $50 for our cow. 880 00:48:40,959 --> 00:48:44,713 And I have no intention of accepting that varmint of yours in exchange. 881 00:48:44,963 --> 00:48:47,674 You have admitted you are partially to blame for all of this. 882 00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:51,678 Anne Shirley, you are too heedless and impulsive. 883 00:48:51,929 --> 00:48:54,681 You just go on and do whatever comes into your head, that's what. 884 00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:56,683 Well, in this world you pay for your mistakes, 885 00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:58,685 and you can certainly afford to pay now. 886 00:48:58,936 --> 00:49:03,732 Well, you have certainly made a fine exhibition of yourself, Rachel, 887 00:49:03,982 --> 00:49:04,775 falling all over this girl 888 00:49:05,025 --> 00:49:06,777 because she's a success. 889 00:49:07,027 --> 00:49:07,778 It's plain to see now 890 00:49:08,028 --> 00:49:09,780 what your true colours are. 891 00:49:10,030 --> 00:49:11,406 Thomas: Rachel! I'm coming, Thomas. 892 00:49:11,615 --> 00:49:13,200 Oh, that man! If he'd just brave up 893 00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:14,785 and exert his will power a little, 894 00:49:15,035 --> 00:49:16,912 he'd get better in no time. 895 00:49:17,412 --> 00:49:19,790 It's a wonder to me that he dared to get sick at all 896 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:21,792 without asking her permission. 897 00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:22,793 Come along, Anne. 898 00:49:23,043 --> 00:49:24,920 We'll pay her her $50. 899 00:49:26,922 --> 00:49:27,798 Rachel: Thomas! 900 00:49:28,090 --> 00:49:30,759 Thomas! 901 00:49:31,009 --> 00:49:34,888 Oh, dear god, please don't take him. 902 00:49:35,514 --> 00:49:36,890 What is it, Thomas? 903 00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:38,767 Where's his medicine, Rachel? 904 00:49:39,017 --> 00:49:39,893 It's in the cupboard. 905 00:49:43,146 --> 00:49:45,774 Is this it? Yes. 906 00:49:46,024 --> 00:49:46,775 Rachel? 907 00:49:47,025 --> 00:49:48,360 Yes, Thomas, what is it? 908 00:49:48,610 --> 00:49:49,778 I... What is it? 909 00:49:50,028 --> 00:49:51,405 I can't hear you. 910 00:49:51,613 --> 00:49:53,407 What is it? 911 00:49:53,615 --> 00:49:55,617 Oh, Thomas! 912 00:50:00,622 --> 00:50:01,915 Oh, Rachel... 913 00:50:02,916 --> 00:50:05,794 I'm afraid there's nothing we can do. 914 00:50:25,897 --> 00:50:26,773 Rachel: There won't be much left 915 00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:28,775 after all our debts are settled. 916 00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:31,778 I expect I'll go west to my Robert, 917 00:50:32,029 --> 00:50:33,780 if he'll have me. 918 00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:37,784 The farm is mortgaged and... 919 00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:40,746 Now it will have to be sold. 920 00:50:40,996 --> 00:50:41,913 Now, Rachel. 921 00:50:42,205 --> 00:50:44,249 Pull yourself together. 922 00:50:44,624 --> 00:50:47,627 Well, I'm no jellyfish. But... 923 00:50:47,919 --> 00:50:51,590 A woman my age doesn't make friends and interests easily, that's all. 924 00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:55,886 It breaks my heart to think of leaving avonlea. 925 00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:03,977 How are you feeling tight, Rachel? 926 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:05,979 A little better I think, thank you, Anne. 927 00:51:08,982 --> 00:51:13,820 Here's my gift, paid for out of the proceeds of the Jersey cow. 928 00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:15,655 It's not much of a party gift, but... 929 00:51:15,989 --> 00:51:19,868 You tell them that I plan to give them my zigzag quilt 930 00:51:20,118 --> 00:51:21,286 as a wedding present. 931 00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:24,873 Why, Anne, you haven't worn that outfit in ages. 932 00:51:25,123 --> 00:51:26,875 You look lovely. 933 00:51:27,125 --> 00:51:28,877 Thank you, marilla. 934 00:51:29,127 --> 00:51:31,880 Gilbert blythe will be mighty proud. 935 00:51:32,130 --> 00:51:33,590 Why isn't he here yet? 936 00:51:34,966 --> 00:51:35,842 Put on your sweater. 937 00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:37,385 It's going to be cool this evening. 938 00:51:40,972 --> 00:51:43,850 I'm... I'm going alone, Rachel. 939 00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:45,852 I hope you don't mind my taking the carriage, marilla. 940 00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:46,978 No. No. 941 00:51:49,815 --> 00:51:52,984 You did put my name on the card, I hope. 942 00:51:54,986 --> 00:51:56,863 Of course, marilla. 943 00:51:57,114 --> 00:51:57,989 Goodbye now. 944 00:51:58,281 --> 00:51:59,950 Goodbye, Rachel. 945 00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:00,951 Have a lovely time. 946 00:52:01,201 --> 00:52:02,953 Be careful that you don't get your skirt caught 947 00:52:03,203 --> 00:52:04,955 in the wheel of the hay-wain, Anne. 948 00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:07,958 Well, marilla, 949 00:52:08,208 --> 00:52:10,961 you know I pride myself on speaking my mind. 950 00:52:11,211 --> 00:52:14,089 I smell trouble, and I don't mind saying so. 951 00:52:14,381 --> 00:52:15,966 Providence matched them two up 952 00:52:16,258 --> 00:52:18,051 since they were children, that's what. 953 00:52:18,468 --> 00:52:20,929 And they are children still. 954 00:52:21,179 --> 00:52:24,599 She's 18, and I was married by that time. 955 00:52:24,891 --> 00:52:26,935 But Anne's grown too much like you, marilla. 956 00:52:27,185 --> 00:52:30,063 It's the over-particular ones, get left behind 957 00:52:30,522 --> 00:52:33,942 and it is the over-opinionated that end up unhappy 958 00:52:34,192 --> 00:52:36,069 and meaner than second skimmings. 959 00:52:43,076 --> 00:52:45,370 Both: 960 00:52:45,787 --> 00:52:49,166 Oh! This is glorious! 961 00:52:49,624 --> 00:52:51,793 Did you remember the time... 962 00:52:52,085 --> 00:52:53,962 We slept all night in the hay loft? 963 00:52:54,212 --> 00:52:56,840 And I was so frightened we were going to be attacked by that barn owl, 964 00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:57,924 I... Come on, Diana, 965 00:52:58,175 --> 00:53:00,010 we've got to organize the gifts. 966 00:53:00,260 --> 00:53:02,012 Duty calls. 967 00:53:27,621 --> 00:53:29,623 Anne, where are you off to? 968 00:53:29,998 --> 00:53:31,541 We won't leave any clams for you 969 00:53:31,625 --> 00:53:32,626 if you don't hurry back. 970 00:53:32,792 --> 00:53:35,212 Just enjoying the fresh air. 971 00:53:35,629 --> 00:53:37,255 Oh, you haven't met my fiance. 972 00:53:37,589 --> 00:53:39,507 Harry inglis from winnipeg, Anne Shirley. 973 00:53:39,591 --> 00:53:41,509 Pleased to meet you, ma'am. 974 00:53:41,593 --> 00:53:42,510 Pleased to meet you. 975 00:53:42,594 --> 00:53:44,554 Well, you're a very lucky man, Mr. Inglis. 976 00:53:44,596 --> 00:53:46,431 Where will you live? 977 00:53:46,598 --> 00:53:48,600 In Montreal. Harry's in the mining business. 978 00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:51,061 Oh, Jane, stop showing off your ring. 979 00:53:51,603 --> 00:53:53,521 I can see it glimmering through the trees. 980 00:53:53,605 --> 00:53:56,524 It's been real nice seeing you again, Anne. 981 00:53:56,608 --> 00:53:58,526 Let's go, Harry. 982 00:53:58,610 --> 00:54:00,612 You boys run along with Jane and Harry. 983 00:54:00,779 --> 00:54:02,614 I want to talk to Anne. 984 00:54:04,991 --> 00:54:07,619 Isn't Jane's millionaire ancient? 985 00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:09,496 He could be her father. 986 00:54:09,621 --> 00:54:11,623 Well, he certainly must have a lot of money. 987 00:54:11,665 --> 00:54:14,626 I'll say. He's just showered her with jewellery. 988 00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:17,295 And they're going to Europe on a wedding tour. 989 00:54:17,629 --> 00:54:18,588 Jane's such a nice girl. 990 00:54:18,672 --> 00:54:20,632 She's never even tried to attract attention. 991 00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:23,593 Well, she's certainly not in the millionaire's class. 992 00:54:23,635 --> 00:54:25,595 What about you, Anne? 993 00:54:25,637 --> 00:54:27,597 Are you here with Gilbert? 994 00:54:27,639 --> 00:54:30,600 I... Aren't those two ridiculous? 995 00:54:30,642 --> 00:54:32,602 They're determined to sit each other out. 996 00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:34,604 I really don't care a snit about either of them, you know. 997 00:54:34,646 --> 00:54:37,607 Well, let's get together soon, Anne. 998 00:54:37,649 --> 00:54:38,608 I want to hear all of your news. 999 00:55:08,596 --> 00:55:09,597 Me? 1000 00:55:11,599 --> 00:55:14,227 I'd be honoured to accept this dance. 1001 00:55:20,734 --> 00:55:22,610 Why thank you. 1002 00:55:22,652 --> 00:55:24,487 You can call me cordelia. 1003 00:55:24,612 --> 00:55:27,490 Cordelia, you have an exquisite roseleaf complexion. 1004 00:55:37,625 --> 00:55:38,626 Do allow me. 1005 00:55:38,793 --> 00:55:40,628 I have an account to settle with this young lady. 1006 00:55:41,963 --> 00:55:43,715 Your $20. 1007 00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:47,594 Care to? 1008 00:56:05,820 --> 00:56:07,614 I'm sorry, Gil. 1009 00:56:07,822 --> 00:56:09,657 I must have two left feet. 1010 00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:35,642 What are you thinking about? 1011 00:56:37,644 --> 00:56:40,605 I'm afraid to speak or move 1012 00:56:40,814 --> 00:56:44,609 for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish, 1013 00:56:44,651 --> 00:56:45,652 like a broken silence. 1014 00:56:49,656 --> 00:56:51,658 Doesn't it remind you of our old school-day picnics? 1015 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,660 Hmmm. 1016 00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:57,622 I don't want any of it to change. 1017 00:56:57,831 --> 00:57:00,750 I wish I could just hold onto those days forever. 1018 00:57:03,628 --> 00:57:06,589 I have a feeling things will never be the same again. 1019 00:57:06,881 --> 00:57:08,716 Will they? 1020 00:57:10,718 --> 00:57:12,595 I won't change. 1021 00:57:12,887 --> 00:57:14,722 That's the least I can promise you. 1022 00:57:16,724 --> 00:57:18,726 Anne, there's something I want to ask you. 1023 00:57:20,728 --> 00:57:21,729 Gil, please don't. 1024 00:57:23,731 --> 00:57:24,732 What is it? 1025 00:57:26,734 --> 00:57:29,446 You've been avoiding me all spring, ever since we graduated. 1026 00:57:29,737 --> 00:57:31,739 I never wanted to make you care for me so. 1027 00:57:34,742 --> 00:57:35,743 I kept away so you wouldn't. 1028 00:57:37,745 --> 00:57:39,747 Well, I won't be coming back to white sands in the fall. 1029 00:57:41,916 --> 00:57:44,544 Dalhousie medical school has accepted me. 1030 00:57:45,753 --> 00:57:47,714 Gil, I'm so proud of you. 1031 00:57:48,715 --> 00:57:50,592 I'm sorry about last week. 1032 00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:52,719 I only wanted to show you how much I care. 1033 00:57:55,722 --> 00:57:58,600 Well, maybe you don't think I'm good enough for you now, 1034 00:57:58,725 --> 00:58:00,018 but I will be someday. 1035 00:58:00,602 --> 00:58:02,687 No, Gil, you're a great deal too good for me. 1036 00:58:02,979 --> 00:58:06,691 But you want someone who'll adore you; 1037 00:58:06,983 --> 00:58:08,693 someone who'll be happy just to hang on your arm 1038 00:58:08,985 --> 00:58:10,820 and build a home for you 1039 00:58:11,821 --> 00:58:13,656 I wouldn't. 1040 00:58:13,907 --> 00:58:14,782 Anne, that's not what I'm looking for at all. 1041 00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:17,827 We'd end up like two old crows, fighting all the time. 1042 00:58:21,831 --> 00:58:24,709 I know i'd be unhappy, 1043 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:26,002 and I'd wish we'd never done it. 1044 00:58:29,797 --> 00:58:31,799 Everybody expects it. 1045 00:58:33,009 --> 00:58:34,719 You must feel that. 1046 00:58:34,969 --> 00:58:37,805 Well then, it would be for all the wrong reasons, Gil. 1047 00:58:40,808 --> 00:58:43,811 You just think that you love me. 1048 00:58:46,272 --> 00:58:47,815 Anne... 1049 00:58:49,817 --> 00:58:52,820 I've loved you as long as I can remember. 1050 00:58:55,823 --> 00:58:56,824 I need you. 1051 00:58:57,825 --> 00:58:59,786 I can't go away knowing that if I'd just... 1052 00:59:00,078 --> 00:59:02,789 I promise that I'll always be here if you need me. 1053 00:59:03,081 --> 00:59:05,667 Good friends are always together in spirit. 1054 00:59:07,919 --> 00:59:09,796 Let's not change, Gil. 1055 00:59:10,088 --> 00:59:12,048 Let's just go on being good friends. 1056 00:59:21,057 --> 00:59:22,308 Friends, huh? 1057 00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:23,893 I thought we were kindred spirits. 1058 00:59:25,895 --> 00:59:26,896 Please say yes. 1059 00:59:28,731 --> 00:59:29,899 I can't. 1060 00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:33,903 Gil, I'm so desperately sorry. 1061 00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:53,756 Whoa! 1062 00:59:54,048 --> 00:59:54,882 Whoa! 1063 00:59:55,508 --> 00:59:55,883 Lady, get out of the way. 1064 00:59:57,510 --> 00:59:58,511 Whoa! 1065 00:59:58,678 --> 00:59:59,762 What the heck are you doing, lady? 1066 01:00:00,054 --> 01:00:00,763 Have you any idea how difficult it is 1067 01:00:01,055 --> 01:00:02,765 to replace one of these lanterns? 1068 01:00:03,057 --> 01:00:05,768 You had no business taking the right-of-way. 1069 01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:07,687 You had no business to be out here alone 1070 01:00:07,937 --> 01:00:08,896 in the dark without a lantern. 1071 01:00:10,732 --> 01:00:12,567 Are all motorists as bold as you? 1072 01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:13,776 I enjoy being out alone at night. 1073 01:00:14,068 --> 01:00:17,780 Any gentleman would have had the decency to stop. 1074 01:00:18,072 --> 01:00:20,617 I was hoping we'd meet again. 1075 01:00:20,867 --> 01:00:23,786 I've been wondering for several weeks exactly who you were. 1076 01:00:24,078 --> 01:00:25,622 I'm sorry I wasn't able to introduce myself 1077 01:00:25,872 --> 01:00:26,789 that day on the beach. 1078 01:00:27,081 --> 01:00:27,790 Captain... I have no desire to be introduced, 1079 01:00:28,082 --> 01:00:28,916 thank you. 1080 01:00:32,629 --> 01:00:33,796 I'll bet no one's ever told 1081 01:00:34,088 --> 01:00:35,757 how becoming red hair can be in the moonlight. 1082 01:00:36,049 --> 01:00:37,884 Actually lots of people have. 1083 01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:47,894 Why don't you tie the horse up? 1084 01:00:48,895 --> 01:00:50,813 I'll take wherever you want to go. 1085 01:00:51,064 --> 01:00:52,565 You can come back for the buggy in the morning. 1086 01:00:52,774 --> 01:00:53,900 I'll do no such thing. 1087 01:00:54,942 --> 01:00:56,611 Suit yourself. 1088 01:01:06,746 --> 01:01:08,831 Just trying to be a gentleman. 1089 01:01:11,084 --> 01:01:12,377 Don't give yourself airs. 1090 01:01:12,752 --> 01:01:15,004 You are in a class entirely by yourself. 1091 01:01:25,973 --> 01:01:32,855 Oh promise me that someday you and I... 1092 01:01:34,232 --> 01:01:41,864 Will take our love together to some skies 1093 01:01:42,156 --> 01:01:44,867 when we... Both: 1094 01:01:45,159 --> 01:01:48,913 ...alone and love renew... 1095 01:01:49,163 --> 01:01:52,583 If the minister's wife attempts to do this piece, I shall faint. 1096 01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:53,876 I can't allow it. 1097 01:01:54,168 --> 01:01:57,922 ...flowers blue... 1098 01:01:58,131 --> 01:02:00,925 Can't you just see 1099 01:02:01,217 --> 01:02:03,928 the buttons popping off her corset. 1100 01:02:04,220 --> 01:02:05,471 Oh stop, Anne. 1101 01:02:05,638 --> 01:02:06,931 Oh, I'm going to be sick. 1102 01:02:07,223 --> 01:02:09,934 Now, now, this is you, 1103 01:02:10,226 --> 01:02:13,855 nervously sweeping up the aisle on your father's arm, 1104 01:02:14,105 --> 01:02:15,523 your black curls frosted over 1105 01:02:15,898 --> 01:02:18,067 with the film of your delicate chiffon veil. 1106 01:02:21,070 --> 01:02:22,947 The perfect bride. 1107 01:02:23,239 --> 01:02:25,950 You look into Fred's red face and whisper, 1108 01:02:26,242 --> 01:02:27,952 "do." oh, no. 1109 01:02:28,244 --> 01:02:30,163 Don't be mean. 1110 01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:33,040 Just promise me one thing. 1111 01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:35,626 If he faints, make sure you catch him. 1112 01:02:39,255 --> 01:02:40,006 Diana? 1113 01:02:40,256 --> 01:02:43,843 Diana Barry, what in heaven's name is going on? 1114 01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:44,927 Now you've done it. 1115 01:02:45,219 --> 01:02:46,929 Diana, answer me. 1116 01:02:47,221 --> 01:02:48,848 Nothing, mother. 1117 01:02:49,098 --> 01:02:50,850 We're just rehearsing the wedding march. 1118 01:02:51,100 --> 01:02:53,060 Well for pity's sake, don't march through the ceiling. 1119 01:02:55,062 --> 01:02:58,941 Oh, I'm so nervous, Anne. 1120 01:02:59,233 --> 01:03:01,986 I don't know how I'm going to get through this tomorrow. 1121 01:03:02,236 --> 01:03:04,030 You'll be all right. 1122 01:03:04,322 --> 01:03:06,032 Everyone survives the ceremony. 1123 01:03:06,324 --> 01:03:08,034 It's afterwards... Oh, you're so smug. 1124 01:03:08,326 --> 01:03:11,037 Just wait till your turn comes, miss Anne. 1125 01:03:11,329 --> 01:03:16,083 No, I have defi- nitely decided on a career over marriage. 1126 01:03:16,334 --> 01:03:19,337 I think I'd like to be a nun. 1127 01:03:19,712 --> 01:03:23,716 Wouldn't it be wonderful to be the bride of heaven? 1128 01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:26,135 Oh, but then, I'm not catholic. 1129 01:03:26,385 --> 01:03:28,012 And I'd hardly qualify for that sort of career. 1130 01:03:28,304 --> 01:03:30,014 Well, what about a nurse? 1131 01:03:30,306 --> 01:03:33,017 That's a romantic profession, 1132 01:03:33,309 --> 01:03:34,936 smoothing fevered brows, 1133 01:03:37,980 --> 01:03:39,148 falling madly in love with you, 1134 01:03:39,398 --> 01:03:42,151 and carrying you off to the mediterranean. 1135 01:03:44,612 --> 01:03:47,824 I can't give it up for the prosaic reality of Gilbert. 1136 01:03:49,826 --> 01:03:51,160 He proposed, you know... 1137 01:03:52,161 --> 01:03:53,162 And I refused. 1138 01:03:54,622 --> 01:03:56,165 You what? 1139 01:03:58,167 --> 01:03:59,043 Yes. 1140 01:03:59,335 --> 01:04:02,129 Anne, are you out of your mind? 1141 01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:04,382 Don't scold me, Diana. 1142 01:04:04,590 --> 01:04:06,592 Can't you understand? 1143 01:04:07,009 --> 01:04:09,095 Oh, Anne, I can't believe it. 1144 01:04:09,387 --> 01:04:12,598 I thought all this going on about you ideals was a cover-up 1145 01:04:13,057 --> 01:04:14,225 because he hadn't asked you yet. 1146 01:04:16,227 --> 01:04:18,229 You actually said no? 1147 01:04:18,604 --> 01:04:20,857 After two years of flirting, 1148 01:04:21,232 --> 01:04:22,650 this is scandalous. 1149 01:04:23,150 --> 01:04:25,111 You take that back, Diana Barry. 1150 01:04:25,403 --> 01:04:27,113 I've never flirted with him. 1151 01:04:27,405 --> 01:04:29,532 Gil and I have only ever been good friends. 1152 01:04:29,907 --> 01:04:32,118 I even steered clear of Gilbert because of you. 1153 01:04:32,410 --> 01:04:34,245 How could you, Anne? 1154 01:04:36,330 --> 01:04:38,624 I know... I don't love him. 1155 01:04:40,251 --> 01:04:43,129 I'm sure he despises me now. 1156 01:04:43,421 --> 01:04:44,130 And you desise me 1157 01:04:44,422 --> 01:04:47,091 and I despise myself. 1158 01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:50,219 I'm so humiliated over this whole stupid thing. 1159 01:04:52,597 --> 01:04:55,099 You poor darling. 1160 01:04:55,391 --> 01:04:56,225 I've no right to scold. 1161 01:04:58,227 --> 01:05:01,188 Things are so mixed up in real life, Anne. 1162 01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,317 Ey're never as clear as they are in romantic novels. 1163 01:05:13,492 --> 01:05:21,208 Oh promise me that someday you and I 1164 01:05:21,500 --> 01:05:28,674 will take our love together to some skies... 1165 01:05:31,218 --> 01:05:32,803 Your parents are coming. 1166 01:05:33,220 --> 01:05:35,097 Oh! Oh, Anne, I shall die. 1167 01:05:35,348 --> 01:05:39,101 I'm so nervous, I know I'm going to faint, aunt Jo. 1168 01:05:39,352 --> 01:05:42,104 If you do, I'll drag you down to the rainwater hog shed 1169 01:05:42,355 --> 01:05:46,233 and drop you in. Here. Let me see you. 1170 01:05:46,609 --> 01:05:48,110 Don't you fret. 1171 01:05:48,361 --> 01:05:49,695 Oh, you look lovely. 1172 01:05:54,158 --> 01:05:55,618 Mr. Barry: Well, everything's all ready. 1173 01:05:55,952 --> 01:05:57,745 I've given the minister the signal. 1174 01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:00,206 Oh, my darling, I'm losing you forever. 1175 01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:02,208 Oh! Oh! 1176 01:06:02,458 --> 01:06:04,210 Now, now, don't get all sentimental, Elizabeth. 1177 01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:06,212 You still have minnie may. 1178 01:06:06,462 --> 01:06:08,464 Tears aren't lucky at weddings. 1179 01:06:15,513 --> 01:06:19,308 ...oh promise me 1180 01:06:24,313 --> 01:06:33,155 Hearing god's message while the organ rolls 1181 01:06:33,406 --> 01:06:41,330 its mighty music to our very souls 1182 01:06:41,622 --> 01:06:51,173 a love that's perfect and a life with peace 1183 01:06:51,424 --> 01:06:54,176 oh promise me 1184 01:06:54,427 --> 01:06:57,179 oh promise... 1185 01:06:57,430 --> 01:06:58,305 What a fine- looking pair. 1186 01:07:01,392 --> 01:07:06,272 You won't win that blythe boy back by punishing him. 1187 01:07:06,522 --> 01:07:08,274 I wonder why everyone seems to think 1188 01:07:08,524 --> 01:07:10,401 I ought to be with Gilbert blythe. 1189 01:07:13,404 --> 01:07:14,280 Diana... 1190 01:07:38,220 --> 01:07:39,388 Excuse me. 1191 01:07:46,395 --> 01:07:48,397 Moody spurgeon. 1192 01:07:48,606 --> 01:07:50,608 Anne: Goodness, you look older 1193 01:07:51,275 --> 01:07:52,276 in your new celluloid collar. 1194 01:07:52,526 --> 01:07:54,862 Thanks, Anne. You look dashing y-yourself. 1195 01:07:55,404 --> 01:07:57,281 Y-You looked as good as the bride. 1196 01:07:57,531 --> 01:08:00,367 Well, how sweet of you, moody, 1197 01:08:00,618 --> 01:08:01,744 to ask Josie to the wedding. 1198 01:08:02,203 --> 01:08:04,371 You know, I was afraid you mightn't have been invited. 1199 01:08:04,622 --> 01:08:06,457 Isn't she precious, moody? 1200 01:08:06,624 --> 01:08:08,375 You wore that sweet old dress 1201 01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:10,377 to Fanny Emerson's wedding last year though, 1202 01:08:10,628 --> 01:08:11,378 didn't you, Anne? 1203 01:08:11,629 --> 01:08:12,588 You know what they say, 1204 01:08:12,797 --> 01:08:15,341 "twice a bridesmaid, never a bride." 1205 01:08:15,591 --> 01:08:18,344 That's "three times a bridesmaid," 1206 01:08:18,594 --> 01:08:19,595 not twice, Josie. 1207 01:08:19,804 --> 01:08:21,347 But then you're so fortunate. 1208 01:08:21,597 --> 01:08:23,349 The only thing you've ever had to wear twice 1209 01:08:23,599 --> 01:08:25,101 is a sour expression. 1210 01:08:25,893 --> 01:08:27,812 Now, don't you forget to save me a waltz. 1211 01:08:28,270 --> 01:08:29,563 I won't, Anne. 1212 01:08:29,897 --> 01:08:31,899 All right. I was just trying to be polite. 1213 01:08:35,027 --> 01:08:36,445 Your turn, Gilbert... 1214 01:08:36,612 --> 01:08:38,572 Ah, excuse me a moment, won't you, Christine? 1215 01:08:41,575 --> 01:08:43,119 Moody, Josie. Gilbert. 1216 01:08:45,913 --> 01:08:47,915 What's wrong? I don't know. 1217 01:08:49,250 --> 01:08:50,793 Anne, wait. 1218 01:08:51,043 --> 01:08:52,795 Please, Gil. 1219 01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:54,588 Where are you going? 1220 01:08:54,922 --> 01:08:55,881 I'm leaving. 1221 01:08:56,882 --> 01:08:57,883 Marilla took Rachel back early. 1222 01:08:58,134 --> 01:08:59,760 She was ill, and... 1223 01:09:00,010 --> 01:09:00,845 I don't feel very well either. 1224 01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:02,847 I'll drive you back. 1225 01:09:03,097 --> 01:09:03,848 What about your friend? 1226 01:09:04,098 --> 01:09:05,975 I can explain. She won't mind. 1227 01:09:07,977 --> 01:09:08,853 She looks like a lovely 1228 01:09:09,103 --> 01:09:10,980 and accomplished young lady, Gil. 1229 01:09:13,107 --> 01:09:15,109 It's not Christine I care about. 1230 01:09:17,903 --> 01:09:19,613 There's someone else, isn't there? 1231 01:09:19,780 --> 01:09:21,615 No, Gil, honestly there isn't. 1232 01:09:23,993 --> 01:09:25,870 I don't care for anyone in that way, 1233 01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:27,746 and I like you more than anybody. 1234 01:09:33,210 --> 01:09:34,378 Anne, I'll wait. 1235 01:09:36,255 --> 01:09:38,090 Even if I thought you cared just a little. 1236 01:09:39,425 --> 01:09:41,260 I do care, Gil. 1237 01:09:44,263 --> 01:09:45,598 I always have. 1238 01:09:48,893 --> 01:09:52,897 But I can never, never love you in the way that you want me to. 1239 01:09:54,982 --> 01:09:56,817 I'm happy as I am. 1240 01:09:57,067 --> 01:09:58,861 I won't ever marry. 1241 01:09:59,111 --> 01:09:59,987 You'll marry all right. 1242 01:10:03,699 --> 01:10:07,620 Some fool who'll sit and read Tennyson by fire light, no doubt... 1243 01:10:09,705 --> 01:10:11,665 And build you your castles in the sky. 1244 01:10:12,708 --> 01:10:14,627 I know you. 1245 01:10:14,877 --> 01:10:16,879 Please, Gil, I don't mean to hurt you, 1246 01:10:17,296 --> 01:10:18,672 but you'll see that I'm right by and by, 1247 01:10:19,048 --> 01:10:20,674 when you fall for someone else. 1248 01:10:22,676 --> 01:10:24,720 You haven't hurt me really. 1249 01:10:25,721 --> 01:10:27,598 It's just that I've... 1250 01:10:27,848 --> 01:10:29,683 Fooled myself into thinking that you loved me, that's all. 1251 01:10:37,191 --> 01:10:38,734 Gil, please. 1252 01:10:39,985 --> 01:10:41,695 I hope he breaks your heart... 1253 01:10:43,739 --> 01:10:44,698 Whoever he is. 1254 01:10:46,700 --> 01:10:47,618 You don't understand. 1255 01:10:47,868 --> 01:10:49,703 Then maybe you'll come to your senses. 1256 01:10:56,710 --> 01:10:57,711 Anne! 1257 01:11:01,799 --> 01:11:04,677 Oh, you look positively radiant. 1258 01:11:04,927 --> 01:11:06,679 You look like you've seen a ghost. 1259 01:11:06,929 --> 01:11:08,681 Gilbert spoke to me again. 1260 01:11:08,931 --> 01:11:12,685 Diana, I feel like I've cut off his right arm. 1261 01:11:12,935 --> 01:11:14,687 Would you please go and talk to him? 1262 01:11:14,937 --> 01:11:16,689 I know he'll listen to you. 1263 01:11:16,939 --> 01:11:18,482 Hurry up, Diana. 1264 01:11:19,775 --> 01:11:22,069 I don't... I don't know when or... or how, but... 1265 01:11:22,528 --> 01:11:23,779 I'll try. 1266 01:11:26,824 --> 01:11:28,117 Goodbye, Anne. 1267 01:11:30,786 --> 01:11:31,787 Farewell, my beloved. 1268 01:11:59,273 --> 01:12:01,233 Christine: You're wrong, tillie. 1269 01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:03,235 I thought Anne Shirley looked lovely beside Diana. 1270 01:12:03,485 --> 01:12:06,238 Christine Stewart, you're too kind. 1271 01:12:06,488 --> 01:12:09,241 I can't believe you didn't notice Anne staring at gilbrt, 1272 01:12:09,491 --> 01:12:10,617 just to make him jealous. 1273 01:12:11,076 --> 01:12:12,661 I know that Gil is very fond of Anne, 1274 01:12:13,078 --> 01:12:15,247 but he certainly isn't jealous. Huh! 1275 01:12:15,497 --> 01:12:18,083 She's just trying desperately to win him back from you. 1276 01:12:18,375 --> 01:12:19,293 Christine: I don't think it's that at all. 1277 01:12:19,585 --> 01:12:22,296 Besides, Gil and I are only friends. 1278 01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:25,215 Well, I think Anne Shirley has far too big 1279 01:12:25,466 --> 01:12:27,217 an opinion of herself. 1280 01:12:40,481 --> 01:12:42,232 Why, Anne, 1281 01:12:42,483 --> 01:12:45,235 I thought you were going to stay at the Barrys' for the bonfire. 1282 01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:47,237 Why did you come home so early? 1283 01:12:47,488 --> 01:12:50,824 Diana... she was the bride of my dreams. 1284 01:12:51,283 --> 01:12:53,243 But she and Fred have left now and... 1285 01:12:53,494 --> 01:12:56,246 I feel tired and... anxious. 1286 01:12:56,497 --> 01:12:58,082 I don't know. 1287 01:12:59,958 --> 01:13:03,879 Perhaps I should accept miss Stacey's offer in kingsport. 1288 01:13:04,129 --> 01:13:07,841 I'd like to see and hear new places. 1289 01:13:08,092 --> 01:13:10,844 I could get a whole bunch of ideas I could write stories from. 1290 01:13:11,095 --> 01:13:15,391 Rachel was feeling pretty discouraged today at the wedding, 1291 01:13:15,599 --> 01:13:18,852 having to move west and live with her boy and all. 1292 01:13:19,103 --> 01:13:22,356 And the thought came to me that perhaps I should ask her 1293 01:13:22,606 --> 01:13:24,608 to board with me instead of the picard girl. 1294 01:13:24,691 --> 01:13:26,860 I haven't said anything to her. 1295 01:13:27,236 --> 01:13:28,278 I wanted your opinion. 1296 01:13:28,612 --> 01:13:30,572 Well, it would be your decision, marilla. 1297 01:13:30,739 --> 01:13:32,491 But are you sure? 1298 01:13:32,616 --> 01:13:35,619 Well, she has her faults, I know. 1299 01:13:35,702 --> 01:13:38,622 But she has been my nearest neighbour 1300 01:13:38,705 --> 01:13:40,624 for 45 years, and... 1301 01:13:40,666 --> 01:13:43,627 I'd rather put up with her than lose her. 1302 01:13:43,710 --> 01:13:47,589 Please don't do this because you feel badly on my account. 1303 01:13:47,673 --> 01:13:50,134 Oh, stuff and nonsense. 1304 01:13:50,592 --> 01:13:52,219 I can be civil with Rachel, 1305 01:13:52,553 --> 01:13:54,596 as long as she stays out of my kitchen. 1306 01:13:56,265 --> 01:14:00,227 We'll be quite capable of looking after the farm with Mr. Barry's help. 1307 01:14:00,561 --> 01:14:01,395 Marilla... 1308 01:14:02,813 --> 01:14:05,315 Do you never wish you'd adopted a boy 1309 01:14:05,566 --> 01:14:07,317 like you intended to? 1310 01:14:07,568 --> 01:14:08,902 I mean, he could have run this farm, 1311 01:14:09,403 --> 01:14:11,321 and saved you all this trouble. 1312 01:14:11,572 --> 01:14:16,326 Anne Shirley, I wouldn't trade you for a dozen boys. 1313 01:14:16,577 --> 01:14:18,412 Now you just mind that. 1314 01:14:18,620 --> 01:14:22,166 Was it a boy that got the bachelor of arts, 1315 01:14:22,416 --> 01:14:25,335 and won the rollings reliable story contest, 1316 01:14:25,586 --> 01:14:26,420 now was it? 1317 01:14:27,337 --> 01:14:30,215 I'll miss you. I'll miss my girl. 1318 01:14:31,216 --> 01:14:33,927 Promise me you won't stay away forever. 1319 01:14:51,945 --> 01:14:54,573 I never thought of living as far off the road as green gables, 1320 01:14:54,698 --> 01:14:57,242 but I... I'd rather live at the bottom of a well 1321 01:14:57,534 --> 01:14:58,368 than leave avonlea. 1322 01:14:58,619 --> 01:15:00,787 Well, I know how grateful Anne is to you for staying. 1323 01:15:01,121 --> 01:15:03,665 Well, she was always one to leap into things 1324 01:15:03,916 --> 01:15:05,667 when she'd made her mind up to it. 1325 01:15:05,918 --> 01:15:08,670 It's a blessing she's off to a ladies' academy, that's what. 1326 01:15:08,921 --> 01:15:11,632 I don't approve of them co-educational institutions, 1327 01:15:11,882 --> 01:15:13,634 and I never have. All the girls 1328 01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:15,177 flirting with all the boys. 1329 01:15:15,594 --> 01:15:17,179 They do study a little, Rachel. 1330 01:15:17,596 --> 01:15:19,598 Humph. Precious little. 1331 01:15:19,765 --> 01:15:21,600 However her pupils will be well enough behaved, 1332 01:15:21,767 --> 01:15:22,768 if this school's as well-to-do as she claims. 1333 01:15:23,018 --> 01:15:25,646 I can't imagine I've forgotten a thing. 1334 01:15:25,938 --> 01:15:27,648 Anne: You've all been so helpful. 1335 01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:29,024 Mind how you were raised now, 1336 01:15:29,483 --> 01:15:30,651 and go to church regularly, Anne, 1337 01:15:30,901 --> 01:15:32,486 and be careful what friends you make. 1338 01:15:32,653 --> 01:15:34,613 Marilla: Be sure to put on your warm under-clothes 1339 01:15:34,863 --> 01:15:35,656 when the weather gets chilly. 1340 01:15:35,906 --> 01:15:37,658 Rachel: Yes, and be careful of your health whatever you do. 1341 01:15:37,908 --> 01:15:40,327 And you let us hear from you when you've settled. 1342 01:15:45,415 --> 01:15:47,292 Rachel: Goodbye, Anne. Goodbye. 1343 01:15:47,543 --> 01:15:48,335 Make sure everything's well tagged 1344 01:15:48,627 --> 01:15:50,295 when you put it on the train. 1345 01:15:50,546 --> 01:15:52,256 Don't worry, we'll take good care of her at the station. 1346 01:15:52,548 --> 01:15:54,258 Hurry up now. You'll be late. 1347 01:15:54,508 --> 01:15:55,384 Good luck. 1348 01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:00,764 Goodbye, marilla. 1349 01:16:01,181 --> 01:16:02,849 I don't know what I'd do without you. 1350 01:16:04,226 --> 01:16:05,852 You've both been so wonderful. 1351 01:16:06,186 --> 01:16:07,104 But I won't be gone for long, 1352 01:16:07,354 --> 01:16:09,189 and I promise I'll write as often as I can. 1353 01:16:11,191 --> 01:16:12,109 Goodbye. 1354 01:16:23,245 --> 01:16:24,121 Well, marilla, 1355 01:16:24,371 --> 01:16:27,207 I never would have believed an orphan could turn out so fine. 1356 01:16:27,624 --> 01:16:31,128 No one could deny she's real tall and stylish now. 1357 01:16:31,378 --> 01:16:33,213 Nobody at all. 1358 01:16:35,340 --> 01:16:37,259 Marilla: I can't help remembering her 1359 01:16:37,509 --> 01:16:38,719 as a little girl. 1360 01:16:39,344 --> 01:16:41,346 Awful hard I was bewildered, 1361 01:16:41,722 --> 01:16:44,266 trying to manage her. 1362 01:16:44,516 --> 01:16:46,351 Matthew understood her better. 1363 01:16:47,853 --> 01:16:50,606 Well, it's to your credit you've changed her as much as you did. 1364 01:16:52,316 --> 01:16:55,193 Oh, she hasn't changed that much. 1365 01:16:55,611 --> 01:16:57,404 Not really. 1366 01:16:57,696 --> 01:17:00,616 It's us that's changed, Rachel. 1367 01:17:07,414 --> 01:17:10,417 How I've longed for this moment, Diana, 1368 01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:13,045 and now that it's staring me in the face, 1369 01:17:13,295 --> 01:17:15,589 I can't bear the thought of leaving. 1370 01:17:16,214 --> 01:17:19,051 We saw Gil blythe off to medical school last week. 1371 01:17:21,386 --> 01:17:23,722 Did he... say anything, Diana? 1372 01:17:25,015 --> 01:17:26,600 I think he understands, Anne. 1373 01:18:00,050 --> 01:18:03,929 Anne? Anne Shirley! 1374 01:18:04,221 --> 01:18:05,931 Oh, there you are. 1375 01:18:06,223 --> 01:18:07,057 Oh, miss Stacey. 1376 01:18:07,307 --> 01:18:09,518 It feels like decades. 1377 01:18:09,893 --> 01:18:11,520 Oh, up all night on that dreadful train, 1378 01:18:11,895 --> 01:18:12,938 you must be exhausted. 1379 01:18:13,230 --> 01:18:15,941 Oh, I feel broken-down and green and provincial, 1380 01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:17,943 and only ten years old. 1381 01:18:18,235 --> 01:18:18,944 For pity's sake please take me someplace 1382 01:18:19,236 --> 01:18:20,570 where I can hear myself think. 1383 01:18:20,946 --> 01:18:22,906 I've got a cab waiting just outside. 1384 01:18:23,156 --> 01:18:24,074 Where are your lugga tickets? 1385 01:18:25,075 --> 01:18:26,952 The driver can take care of your trunk. 1386 01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:27,953 If you weren't here, miss Stacey, 1387 01:18:28,245 --> 01:18:31,623 I think I should just sit down and burst into tears. 1388 01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,959 Well, I can't tell you 1389 01:18:34,251 --> 01:18:35,961 just how happy I am to have you here, Anne. 1390 01:18:36,253 --> 01:18:38,964 After all, why be a member of the board of governors of an institution, 1391 01:18:39,256 --> 01:18:39,923 if you can't pull a few strings? 1392 01:18:40,215 --> 01:18:41,925 Oh, miss Stacey, you didn't! 1393 01:18:42,217 --> 01:18:42,926 Yes, I did. 1394 01:18:47,055 --> 01:18:49,266 Anne: I intend to keep up with my writing. 1395 01:18:49,599 --> 01:18:52,936 This quaint old town will be a wonderful inspiration. 1396 01:18:53,228 --> 01:18:54,688 Well, I think your youth and vitality 1397 01:18:55,063 --> 01:18:57,941 will make an enormous contribution to our ladies' college. 1398 01:18:58,233 --> 01:19:01,027 After all, you were my prize pupil in avonlea. 1399 01:19:01,319 --> 01:19:03,822 Anne: I'm so nervous I won't meet with their expectations. 1400 01:19:04,156 --> 01:19:05,031 Miss Stacey: Oh, nonsense. 1401 01:19:05,323 --> 01:19:08,034 They may be privileged young ladies from wealthy families, 1402 01:19:08,326 --> 01:19:11,037 but they're spoiled and pampered, many of them. 1403 01:19:15,333 --> 01:19:18,336 Great jehosophat! What richness! 1404 01:19:18,628 --> 01:19:21,006 This is far more gracious 1405 01:19:21,298 --> 01:19:23,133 than I ever dreamed could exist. 1406 01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:36,021 Good morning, ma'am. Good morning. 1407 01:19:36,313 --> 01:19:38,023 Could you please tell miss pringle that miss Stacey 1408 01:19:38,315 --> 01:19:42,027 and miss Anne Shirley are here to see her. 1409 01:19:42,319 --> 01:19:44,029 I think you'll be quite comfortable here. 1410 01:19:44,321 --> 01:19:46,156 Mrs. Tom pringle is on the alumni. 1411 01:19:46,448 --> 01:19:49,034 She's been boarding teachers from kingsport ladies' college 1412 01:19:49,326 --> 01:19:50,160 for 30 years now. 1413 01:19:53,622 --> 01:19:55,707 Miss Stacey, how delightful to see you. 1414 01:19:56,166 --> 01:19:57,042 And you, Mrs. Pringle. 1415 01:19:57,334 --> 01:19:59,044 May I introduce you to miss Anne Shirley 1416 01:19:59,336 --> 01:20:00,712 of avonlea, prince Edward island? 1417 01:20:00,962 --> 01:20:02,047 How do you do? 1418 01:20:03,131 --> 01:20:04,508 She's our new English teacher 1419 01:20:04,591 --> 01:20:05,592 at kingsport ladies' college, 1420 01:20:05,759 --> 01:20:07,594 who you'll be boarding this year. 1421 01:20:08,303 --> 01:20:10,013 Should I have the cabby bring her trunk? 1422 01:20:10,305 --> 01:20:13,016 Obviously you did not receive my letter. 1423 01:20:13,308 --> 01:20:17,020 I'm afraid I've decided not to take her, miss Stacey. 1424 01:20:17,312 --> 01:20:20,023 I'm really rather tired of being bothered 1425 01:20:20,315 --> 01:20:21,608 boarding staff. 1426 01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:23,026 My girls are finished, as you know, 1427 01:20:23,318 --> 01:20:25,612 and I really spend so little time 1428 01:20:25,821 --> 01:20:27,030 with the alumni. 1429 01:20:27,322 --> 01:20:29,032 But Mrs. Pringle... 1430 01:20:29,324 --> 01:20:31,034 I do apologize for the inconvenience. 1431 01:20:31,326 --> 01:20:32,911 Good day, miss Stacey. 1432 01:20:33,161 --> 01:20:34,162 Not at all. 1433 01:20:36,164 --> 01:20:38,041 Good day. 1434 01:20:38,333 --> 01:20:40,043 How typically pringle. 1435 01:20:40,335 --> 01:20:43,338 As smooth as cream, even when they're working against you. 1436 01:20:43,713 --> 01:20:47,133 Well, we shall see about that. Hmm? 1437 01:20:50,136 --> 01:20:52,013 What is it, miss Stacey? 1438 01:20:52,305 --> 01:20:55,016 Kingsport is full of pringles and half-pringles. 1439 01:20:55,308 --> 01:20:57,018 They're the old money that rules this town, 1440 01:20:57,310 --> 01:20:59,020 and Mrs. Tom pring bosses the whole tribe. 1441 01:20:59,312 --> 01:21:01,106 I was afraid they'd be down on you. 1442 01:21:01,398 --> 01:21:04,109 Why should they be? I'm a total stranger. 1443 01:21:04,401 --> 01:21:07,112 One of their cousins, miss Amy pringle boothe, 1444 01:21:07,404 --> 01:21:09,114 applied for your position, 1445 01:21:09,406 --> 01:21:13,118 and was abysmally less qualified, I might add. 1446 01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:15,120 However, when the board announced 1447 01:21:15,412 --> 01:21:16,121 that they had accepted your application, 1448 01:21:16,413 --> 01:21:18,123 well the whole kit and kaboodle of them 1449 01:21:18,415 --> 01:21:20,125 just threw back their heads and howled. 1450 01:21:20,417 --> 01:21:22,419 Uh, kingsport ladies' college, please, driver. 1451 01:21:22,627 --> 01:21:25,130 Well, they're not going to get away with it. 1452 01:21:25,422 --> 01:21:27,090 They can't boycott the board's decision. 1453 01:21:27,382 --> 01:21:28,216 It's undemocratic. 1454 01:21:30,218 --> 01:21:33,597 Anne: I'm not sure I quite always trust democracy. 1455 01:21:33,847 --> 01:21:36,099 They've always ruled the roost here, the whole clan of them. 1456 01:21:36,391 --> 01:21:38,101 Politically and socially. 1457 01:21:38,393 --> 01:21:41,104 Well, they may own the lumber mill, 1458 01:21:41,396 --> 01:21:45,108 the railway, the gas works and the woolen mill, 1459 01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:49,112 but I will not allow the pringles to dictate our system of education. 1460 01:21:49,404 --> 01:21:51,114 You can't imagine how nervous I am now. 1461 01:22:06,504 --> 01:22:08,173 Miss kathane Brooke is the principal here. 1462 01:22:08,465 --> 01:22:11,176 A bit of a martinet in matters of discipline, 1463 01:22:11,468 --> 01:22:15,180 from time to time, but I'm sure 1464 01:22:15,472 --> 01:22:17,182 that we can resolve whatever little differences of opinion 1465 01:22:17,474 --> 01:22:19,184 that might arise. 1466 01:22:31,321 --> 01:22:32,197 Come in. 1467 01:22:32,489 --> 01:22:34,199 Good morning, miss Brooke. 1468 01:22:34,491 --> 01:22:37,202 Miss Stacey. Please forgive the intrusion, 1469 01:22:37,494 --> 01:22:38,662 but I was just so eager to introduce you 1470 01:22:39,079 --> 01:22:41,498 to our new English professor, miss Anne Shirley. 1471 01:22:41,873 --> 01:22:44,334 One of the brightest stars of my entire teaching career. 1472 01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:47,212 She has recently published a short work of fiction as well. 1473 01:22:47,504 --> 01:22:50,173 Welcome to kingsport, miss Shirley. 1474 01:22:50,465 --> 01:22:51,675 Please sit down. 1475 01:22:52,092 --> 01:22:55,679 Thank you. I'm very pleased to be here. 1476 01:22:56,137 --> 01:22:59,182 Miss Stacey has recommended you so highly to us. 1477 01:22:59,474 --> 01:23:02,268 I hadn't expected one so accomplished 1478 01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:03,395 to be so young... 1479 01:23:04,396 --> 01:23:07,440 A fault which time will cure all too soon. 1480 01:23:07,857 --> 01:23:10,443 Miss Brooke, there seems to be some sort of mix-up 1481 01:23:10,860 --> 01:23:12,612 regarding miss Shirley's accommodations, 1482 01:23:13,071 --> 01:23:14,280 but I was sure that you wouldn't object 1483 01:23:14,572 --> 01:23:16,282 having her stay here at the school 1484 01:23:16,574 --> 01:23:18,284 with your out-of-town boarding students. 1485 01:23:18,576 --> 01:23:21,287 I'm sure you'll find her to be the perfect den-mother for them. 1486 01:23:21,579 --> 01:23:23,289 We have no need of maternal affectations 1487 01:23:23,581 --> 01:23:25,291 in this institute, miss Stacey. 1488 01:23:25,583 --> 01:23:28,378 We govern by rules and regulations. 1489 01:23:28,628 --> 01:23:31,256 Which do require a leaven in the lump 1490 01:23:31,548 --> 01:23:33,174 from time to time, ms Brooke. 1491 01:23:33,425 --> 01:23:36,261 Shall we have the groundsman bring in miss Shirley's things? 1492 01:23:36,553 --> 01:23:38,263 I'll have the maid prepare her room. 1493 01:23:38,555 --> 01:23:40,390 Thank you so much. 1494 01:23:44,394 --> 01:23:47,272 She is an absolute sergeant-major, miss Stacey. 1495 01:23:47,564 --> 01:23:49,274 How shall I ever tolerate her sarcasm? 1496 01:23:49,566 --> 01:23:52,277 Nonetheless she is a dedicated teacher, 1497 01:23:52,569 --> 01:23:55,405 if somewhat of an exces- sive disciplinarian. 1498 01:23:56,489 --> 01:23:57,824 You just keep your chin up, 1499 01:23:58,116 --> 01:23:59,784 and you give it your very best, 1500 01:24:00,076 --> 01:24:02,037 if only to spite them all. 1501 01:24:02,620 --> 01:24:05,081 You know how highly I regard your abilities, Anne. 1502 01:24:05,623 --> 01:24:07,625 I shall do very best to rise to the occasion. 1503 01:24:07,667 --> 01:24:09,627 Good girl. 1504 01:24:09,669 --> 01:24:11,588 Now you want to get yourself organized 1505 01:24:11,671 --> 01:24:13,548 before the start of classes tomorrow. 1506 01:24:13,590 --> 01:24:15,592 Oh, ho-ho! 1507 01:24:15,633 --> 01:24:17,594 Oh. Thank you for everything, miss Stacey. 1508 01:24:17,635 --> 01:24:19,596 We can do the rest of our catching up later. 1509 01:24:55,590 --> 01:24:58,093 In future, miss Shirley, you will kindly remember 1510 01:24:58,510 --> 01:25:00,595 that you are not at Liberty to make any changes, 1511 01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,598 no matter how minor, to the conventions of this institution. 1512 01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:06,601 I'm sorry, I... 1513 01:25:06,726 --> 01:25:08,603 I was just so moved by your inspiring quotation, 1514 01:25:08,728 --> 01:25:10,605 I wanted to embellish it. 1515 01:25:10,730 --> 01:25:13,608 Don't patronize me. 1516 01:25:13,733 --> 01:25:17,612 What is to be the pill in al this jam, miss Shirley? 1517 01:25:17,737 --> 01:25:19,614 Why nothing. I... 1518 01:25:19,739 --> 01:25:21,616 I just thought it was a tremendously uplifting idea, 1519 01:25:21,908 --> 01:25:23,618 that's all. 1520 01:25:24,619 --> 01:25:26,621 I'm glad you spell your name with a "k". 1521 01:25:26,746 --> 01:25:28,623 Katharine with a "k" is so much more alluring 1522 01:25:28,748 --> 01:25:30,250 than Catherine with a "c". 1523 01:25:30,542 --> 01:25:32,001 A "c" always looks so smug. 1524 01:25:42,387 --> 01:25:44,305 We have 50 young ladies in our charge, 1525 01:25:44,556 --> 01:25:47,600 from the most privileged families in the maritimes. 1526 01:25:48,017 --> 01:25:50,311 My methods admonish anything beyond the standards 1527 01:25:50,562 --> 01:25:52,313 of the utmost decorum. 1528 01:25:52,564 --> 01:25:54,607 This is not a public school of the kind 1529 01:25:55,108 --> 01:25:56,317 that you are used to, miss Shirley. 1530 01:25:56,568 --> 01:25:59,320 Our students do not require embellishment. 1531 01:25:59,571 --> 01:26:03,408 Simple straight- forward adherence to rules and regulations 1532 01:26:03,616 --> 01:26:05,410 which I have clearly delineated for you, 1533 01:26:05,618 --> 01:26:06,411 miss Shirley. 1534 01:26:06,619 --> 01:26:08,413 Our students are drilled in their studies 1535 01:26:08,621 --> 01:26:10,415 at the beginning of each class. 1536 01:26:10,623 --> 01:26:14,419 Bedtime and mealtime will be strictly observed by our 15 boarders. 1537 01:26:14,627 --> 01:26:16,296 You, miss Shirley, will see to it 1538 01:26:16,546 --> 01:26:17,422 that the boarders especially 1539 01:26:17,589 --> 01:26:19,382 adhere to the utmost orderliness. 1540 01:26:19,591 --> 01:26:22,385 I am placing them under your continual direction. 1541 01:26:22,594 --> 01:26:23,386 I am referred to 1542 01:26:23,595 --> 01:26:25,597 by the entire faculty as Brooke. 1543 01:26:25,847 --> 01:26:27,473 You may do the same. 1544 01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,393 Yes, miss Brooke. 1545 01:26:30,602 --> 01:26:34,397 I understand you have extraordinary talents. 1546 01:26:34,606 --> 01:26:37,400 I look forward to observing them. 1547 01:26:37,609 --> 01:26:40,403 I am glad I meet with your approval in some approximation. 1548 01:26:40,612 --> 01:26:42,405 We shall see. 1549 01:26:42,614 --> 01:26:45,491 You are here as a result of the board's decision, not mine. 1550 01:26:51,623 --> 01:26:53,625 For a country- school ma'rm, you'll find 1551 01:26:53,625 --> 01:26:56,628 that we are equipped with the most modern efficiencies, 1552 01:26:56,628 --> 01:26:58,588 due to the tremendous financial support 1553 01:26:58,630 --> 01:27:00,590 of certain prominent families. 1554 01:27:00,924 --> 01:27:03,593 Girls: 1555 01:27:03,676 --> 01:27:06,596 In fact, we are the first school in the province 1556 01:27:06,679 --> 01:27:08,389 to have a telephone. 1557 01:27:09,599 --> 01:27:12,602 All things bright and beautiful 1558 01:27:12,977 --> 01:27:16,606 all creatures great and small 1559 01:27:16,689 --> 01:27:20,610 all things wise and wonderful 1560 01:27:20,693 --> 01:27:24,614 the lord god made them all 1561 01:27:24,697 --> 01:27:29,619 the lord god made them all 1562 01:27:32,622 --> 01:27:34,916 welcome to a new year. 1563 01:27:35,166 --> 01:27:38,920 I trust you girls are ready to drive into the first session with determination. 1564 01:27:39,170 --> 01:27:41,881 You all know miss McKay, mathematics and science, 1565 01:27:42,131 --> 01:27:43,883 miss kerr, history and geography, 1566 01:27:44,133 --> 01:27:46,886 and miss Shirley will be your new teacher, 1567 01:27:47,136 --> 01:27:50,765 responsible for English and literature, 1568 01:27:51,057 --> 01:27:53,476 as well as all student boarders. 1569 01:27:53,643 --> 01:27:55,603 Miss Shirley will be living in the school with us, 1570 01:27:55,979 --> 01:27:58,940 and will have direct supervisory authority. 1571 01:28:00,066 --> 01:28:01,985 Let us get to work then, 1572 01:28:03,194 --> 01:28:05,029 with no nonsense. 1573 01:28:05,780 --> 01:28:07,991 Please organize yourselves into forms. 1574 01:28:15,790 --> 01:28:17,792 Form one, do you call that a straight line? 1575 01:28:25,133 --> 01:28:26,551 Emmeline Harris... 1576 01:28:27,051 --> 01:28:28,094 Step forward. 1577 01:28:31,097 --> 01:28:32,974 If you intend to make a habit of this, 1578 01:28:33,224 --> 01:28:36,060 I will have no choice but to detain you after class. 1579 01:28:37,437 --> 01:28:39,063 Step back. 1580 01:28:42,942 --> 01:28:45,611 Learn to respond to signals on the electric bell as well. 1581 01:28:47,113 --> 01:28:49,991 I'd much prefer to invent titles for each group, 1582 01:28:50,241 --> 01:28:51,200 like a sorority. 1583 01:28:51,617 --> 01:28:52,201 What about... 1584 01:28:52,618 --> 01:28:54,996 Tudor, Kent and windsor? 1585 01:28:55,246 --> 01:28:57,623 I am not interested in fairy tales. 1586 01:28:58,124 --> 01:29:00,084 You must learn to use the modern conveniences 1587 01:29:00,335 --> 01:29:01,169 of our system. 1588 01:29:03,004 --> 01:29:04,964 At recess, I will employ the electric bell. 1589 01:29:15,183 --> 01:29:18,186 Your room is down the hall, first door. 1590 01:29:24,317 --> 01:29:28,071 Perhaps you think you are above rules, miss Shirley? 1591 01:29:33,201 --> 01:29:34,494 Girls: 1592 01:29:37,538 --> 01:29:39,207 Anne: 1593 01:29:42,210 --> 01:29:44,212 Well... off you go, girls. 1594 01:29:54,430 --> 01:29:55,139 Anne: Please, girls. 1595 01:29:56,307 --> 01:29:57,600 Quiet please. 1596 01:29:59,102 --> 01:30:00,353 Good morning. 1597 01:30:01,604 --> 01:30:03,606 I would like to begin by sharing with you 1598 01:30:03,773 --> 01:30:06,067 what a great privilege it would be for me 1599 01:30:06,359 --> 01:30:07,318 to share with you... uh! 1600 01:30:07,568 --> 01:30:08,486 Girls: 1601 01:30:10,696 --> 01:30:12,615 Oh, blast! 1602 01:30:12,740 --> 01:30:16,619 ...to share with you my great love of English literature 1603 01:30:16,744 --> 01:30:18,579 during the forthcoming year. 1604 01:30:19,914 --> 01:30:22,500 Let's hope I'm a little lighter on Shakespeare 1605 01:30:22,625 --> 01:30:23,626 than I am on my feet. 1606 01:30:33,886 --> 01:30:35,096 Never mind. 1607 01:30:35,513 --> 01:30:36,806 I had a speech prepared, 1608 01:30:37,056 --> 01:30:39,767 but it doesn't seem very important right now. 1609 01:30:40,059 --> 01:30:41,811 My name is Anne Shirley, 1610 01:30:42,061 --> 01:30:44,814 and I know we shall all become good friends in no time. 1611 01:30:45,064 --> 01:30:49,819 Girls: 7 times 2 is 14. 7 times 3 is 21. 1612 01:30:50,069 --> 01:30:53,906 7 times 4 is 28. 7 times 5 is... 1613 01:30:56,909 --> 01:30:59,912 I come from a little town called avonlea on prince Edward island, 1614 01:31:00,163 --> 01:31:01,998 where I have been teaching for the past two years. 1615 01:31:02,373 --> 01:31:04,876 So this is my first time in a private school position. 1616 01:31:05,168 --> 01:31:08,004 And I hope that you will all be able to give me lots of assistance. 1617 01:31:10,590 --> 01:31:12,967 Now... when I call out your name, 1618 01:31:13,593 --> 01:31:14,594 answer "here". 1619 01:31:15,595 --> 01:31:16,596 Pringle, Myra c. 1620 01:31:22,268 --> 01:31:23,269 Pringle, Rebecca a. 1621 01:31:28,941 --> 01:31:30,151 Aren't these your names? 1622 01:31:30,401 --> 01:31:34,155 No, miss, perhaps the class lists have been mixed up. 1623 01:31:34,405 --> 01:31:36,157 Girls: 1624 01:31:36,407 --> 01:31:37,158 Oh, all right, 1625 01:31:37,408 --> 01:31:39,160 give me your names then, one at a time, 1626 01:31:39,410 --> 01:31:41,204 starting here, the young lady in the front row. 1627 01:31:41,496 --> 01:31:43,164 Last name first, and age. 1628 01:31:43,414 --> 01:31:47,168 Oppener, Fanny I. Oppener. 1629 01:31:47,418 --> 01:31:49,170 There are two "ps" in oppener. 1630 01:31:49,420 --> 01:31:51,172 14. 1631 01:31:51,380 --> 01:31:54,133 Girdle, myrtle n. Girdle. 1632 01:31:54,383 --> 01:31:56,135 14. 1633 01:31:56,385 --> 01:31:59,138 Heind. That's h-e-i-n-d. 1634 01:31:59,388 --> 01:32:01,307 Alice b. Heind. 14. 1635 01:32:03,351 --> 01:32:06,312 Ball. Wilma I. Ball. 1636 01:32:06,604 --> 01:32:08,231 33. 1637 01:32:08,481 --> 01:32:12,026 Actually I'm from the rollings reliable baking company, 1638 01:32:12,360 --> 01:32:14,237 and we were wondering when you'd be available 1639 01:32:14,487 --> 01:32:15,613 to rewrite our labels. 1640 01:32:18,324 --> 01:32:20,243 That's enough! 1641 01:32:20,493 --> 01:32:21,452 I hadn't anticipated a class 1642 01:32:21,661 --> 01:32:24,330 whose parents were such nitwits at naming their children. 1643 01:32:28,334 --> 01:32:31,254 Harris. Emmeline Harris. 13. 1644 01:32:31,504 --> 01:32:33,256 And don't believe any of them, miss Shirley. 1645 01:32:33,506 --> 01:32:35,216 What do you mean? 1646 01:32:35,466 --> 01:32:37,218 They're just pulling your leg because they're pringles, 1647 01:32:37,468 --> 01:32:40,221 and they think they can get away with it. 1648 01:32:40,471 --> 01:32:42,598 Old telescope-eyes here wouldn't know a pringle 1649 01:32:42,974 --> 01:32:44,225 if she were face- to-face with one. 1650 01:32:44,475 --> 01:32:46,310 Girls: 1651 01:32:49,355 --> 01:32:51,232 Since misses Fanny eyeoppener, myrtle engirdle, 1652 01:32:51,482 --> 01:32:56,237 Alice beheind and Wilma eyeball find them- selves so terribly witty, 1653 01:32:56,487 --> 01:32:59,240 they will write out an accurate class list 100 times, 1654 01:32:59,490 --> 01:33:02,326 today after classes, for my benefit. 1655 01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:05,454 Now, open your readers, please. 1656 01:33:16,424 --> 01:33:18,009 Girls: 1657 01:33:25,433 --> 01:33:27,310 Please... 1658 01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:29,312 M-M-Miss Shirley... 1659 01:33:34,442 --> 01:33:35,443 Girl: Oh, miss Shirley, help her. 1660 01:33:43,451 --> 01:33:45,328 Anne: Emmeline Harris, 1661 01:33:45,578 --> 01:33:46,329 take this girl to the ladies' room. 1662 01:33:46,579 --> 01:33:48,331 Soak the handkercheif in cold water 1663 01:33:48,581 --> 01:33:50,458 and see if you can stop the bleeding. 1664 01:33:58,424 --> 01:34:00,468 Girls: 1665 01:34:05,598 --> 01:34:08,392 All right. All of you sit down now! 1666 01:34:08,601 --> 01:34:09,602 And remain seated. 1667 01:34:12,605 --> 01:34:15,191 Who put the snake in my desk? 1668 01:34:18,569 --> 01:34:20,404 What is your real name? 1669 01:34:20,613 --> 01:34:23,407 Jen pringle, miss shiry. 1670 01:34:23,616 --> 01:34:26,410 Was it you, Jen pringle? 1671 01:34:26,619 --> 01:34:28,412 Yes, it was. 1672 01:34:28,621 --> 01:34:30,539 You will be detained after classes today... 1673 01:34:34,543 --> 01:34:36,420 And every day for the entire week. 1674 01:34:38,589 --> 01:34:41,050 Now, please, open your third form readers, class. 1675 01:34:41,467 --> 01:34:42,593 I can't, miss Shirley. 1676 01:34:43,803 --> 01:34:45,596 My mother expects me for the next three days 1677 01:34:46,138 --> 01:34:48,516 at the ladies' aid society rummage sale. 1678 01:34:48,599 --> 01:34:52,395 Well, I'm sorry but your mother will have to make other arrangements. 1679 01:34:52,603 --> 01:34:55,398 But she's promised my help on the organ- ization committee. 1680 01:34:55,606 --> 01:34:56,607 I don't care. 1681 01:34:56,732 --> 01:34:58,609 You'll stay if I say so. 1682 01:34:58,943 --> 01:35:00,903 I simply cannot stay. 1683 01:35:01,612 --> 01:35:02,613 I'm sorry. 1684 01:35:05,616 --> 01:35:08,494 Well then, it's up to you, isn't it, Jen pringle? 1685 01:35:08,619 --> 01:35:10,621 Either you stay after school for the week... 1686 01:35:11,706 --> 01:35:13,624 Or I'll have to minister the strap. 1687 01:35:14,625 --> 01:35:17,503 Myra: You just can't do that, miss Shirley. 1688 01:35:20,589 --> 01:35:22,466 I'll take the strap. 1689 01:35:22,591 --> 01:35:24,468 Really? 1690 01:35:25,928 --> 01:35:28,055 Come here then, miss pringle. 1691 01:35:36,856 --> 01:35:38,566 Put out your hand. 1692 01:36:13,601 --> 01:36:15,561 Open your readers, class, 1693 01:36:15,603 --> 01:36:17,563 and please look at the first chapter for the rest of the period. 1694 01:36:41,629 --> 01:36:43,297 Girls: 1695 01:36:50,346 --> 01:36:51,806 Are you all right, essie? 1696 01:36:52,264 --> 01:36:54,975 I'm afraid I'm not very good around reptiles. 1697 01:36:55,226 --> 01:36:56,101 Neither am I. 1698 01:37:00,606 --> 01:37:02,483 You'll get used to essie, miss Shirley. 1699 01:37:02,608 --> 01:37:03,692 She faints at least once a week. 1700 01:37:05,236 --> 01:37:07,613 The doctors say her blood is weak. 1701 01:37:08,614 --> 01:37:10,616 Thank you, emmeline. 1702 01:37:10,658 --> 01:37:13,244 Don't concern yourself about the pringle girls either. 1703 01:37:13,619 --> 01:37:15,871 The only people they like are themselves. 1704 01:37:17,248 --> 01:37:19,124 I can say that without malice, 1705 01:37:19,416 --> 01:37:20,251 because my mother was a pringle. 1706 01:37:25,130 --> 01:37:27,007 Besides, I like you, 1707 01:37:27,299 --> 01:37:29,468 and I think you handled the class very intelligently. 1708 01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:52,241 You traitor, Harris. 1709 01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:54,243 I guess there are only two kinds of people in kingsport; 1710 01:37:54,577 --> 01:37:56,370 those who are pringles and those who aren't. 1711 01:37:56,620 --> 01:37:58,163 Shut up, Jen. 1712 01:37:58,414 --> 01:38:00,249 I don't care a snit what you say. 1713 01:38:00,499 --> 01:38:02,251 I'm half-pringle. 1714 01:38:02,501 --> 01:38:05,254 Huh, your mother didn't live long enough to make you anything. 1715 01:38:05,504 --> 01:38:07,256 And my papa says your papa 1716 01:38:07,464 --> 01:38:09,216 is the greatest philanderer in this country, 1717 01:38:09,466 --> 01:38:11,302 so that practically makes you an orphan. 1718 01:38:13,596 --> 01:38:14,597 Emmeline/essie: 1719 01:38:16,599 --> 01:38:19,310 Don't you dare ever say another word about my father again. 1720 01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:21,812 You stupid, good-for- nothing goose-egg. 1721 01:38:28,944 --> 01:38:31,238 He's a brute, and my papa says so. 1722 01:38:31,488 --> 01:38:34,909 Let's see how big your mouth is now, Jen pringle. 1723 01:38:38,621 --> 01:38:40,331 Oh, my glasses! 1724 01:38:43,834 --> 01:38:44,835 Stop it! 1725 01:38:46,962 --> 01:38:48,297 That is enough! 1726 01:38:48,547 --> 01:38:49,798 On your... get up there. 1727 01:38:50,925 --> 01:38:51,842 Stand up. 1728 01:38:52,593 --> 01:38:54,595 Have you girls no propriety? 1729 01:38:54,595 --> 01:38:56,597 This is not Turkish bazaar. 1730 01:38:56,972 --> 01:38:59,600 They tried to run me down on that bicycle. 1731 01:38:59,934 --> 01:39:00,225 You little liar! 1732 01:39:00,601 --> 01:39:02,561 She threw her croquet mallet in the wheel 1733 01:39:02,603 --> 01:39:03,562 and tripped us. 1734 01:39:03,604 --> 01:39:04,563 Didn't she, essie? 1735 01:39:04,605 --> 01:39:06,565 I did not, you beast! 1736 01:39:06,607 --> 01:39:07,608 She attacked me. 1737 01:39:08,150 --> 01:39:09,568 Stop it! 1738 01:39:09,610 --> 01:39:12,571 I have a good mind to expel you both for such hooliganism. 1739 01:39:12,613 --> 01:39:14,615 Bicycles are forbidden on school property. 1740 01:39:15,157 --> 01:39:17,576 This contraption is confiscated as of this moment. 1741 01:39:17,618 --> 01:39:20,537 But, miss Brooke, the bicycle isn't mine. 1742 01:39:20,621 --> 01:39:21,580 It's my brother's. 1743 01:39:21,622 --> 01:39:23,582 He ought not to have been so foolish 1744 01:39:23,624 --> 01:39:25,584 as to have entrusted it to you. 1745 01:39:25,626 --> 01:39:27,586 It hardly seems fair to be punishing her brother. 1746 01:39:27,628 --> 01:39:29,296 Yes, miss Brooke, I think... 1747 01:39:29,588 --> 01:39:31,590 Do you not under- stand English? 1748 01:39:33,592 --> 01:39:35,552 Miss Brooke: Now I want you two girls to apologize to each other, 1749 01:39:35,594 --> 01:39:38,555 and behave like proper young ladies. 1750 01:39:38,597 --> 01:39:42,559 I am quite prepared to forgive your lack of manners. 1751 01:39:42,601 --> 01:39:45,562 And I your rude comments. 1752 01:39:45,604 --> 01:39:47,606 That's enough. 1753 01:39:49,608 --> 01:39:52,361 Well, don't stand there like pigeons, girls. 1754 01:39:52,611 --> 01:39:53,612 Go along. 1755 01:39:55,614 --> 01:39:57,950 If you allow an outburst like that to occur again, miss Shirley, 1756 01:39:58,409 --> 01:39:59,618 you shall have the board to reckon with. 1757 01:40:03,622 --> 01:40:05,582 Lock this in the shed, mctavish. 1758 01:40:05,624 --> 01:40:07,584 Go along, girls, don't gawk. 1759 01:40:19,596 --> 01:40:20,597 Looking for these? 1760 01:40:25,602 --> 01:40:27,521 Jen! 1761 01:40:31,942 --> 01:40:34,570 I'm sorry about your spectacles. 1762 01:40:34,611 --> 01:40:36,155 We'll get them replaced. 1763 01:40:36,572 --> 01:40:37,614 It's not that. 1764 01:40:38,615 --> 01:40:40,576 It's what she said about my papa. 1765 01:40:40,617 --> 01:40:43,579 Just you forget about whatever they said. 1766 01:40:43,620 --> 01:40:45,581 There's not an ounce of truth in it. 1767 01:40:45,622 --> 01:40:48,584 We won't let it spoil the afternoon. 1768 01:40:48,625 --> 01:40:49,585 We didn't get you into trouble, 1769 01:40:49,626 --> 01:40:51,587 did we, miss Shirley? 1770 01:40:51,628 --> 01:40:53,589 Don't worry about me. 1771 01:40:53,589 --> 01:40:56,425 Brooke's just an old battle- axe anyway. 1772 01:40:57,593 --> 01:41:00,596 Don't tell anybody I said that. 1773 01:41:00,637 --> 01:41:03,599 I almost fainted when I saw her come across the lawn. 1774 01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:06,185 Well, she'll cool off in a few days and... 1775 01:41:06,602 --> 01:41:07,603 Then I'll get your brother's bicycle back. 1776 01:41:07,644 --> 01:41:10,606 Come along, and don't you give it another worry. 1777 01:41:12,608 --> 01:41:14,610 Essie: You should have seen her 1778 01:41:14,651 --> 01:41:15,611 with her mouth full of mud, miss Shirley. 1779 01:41:15,652 --> 01:41:18,614 That's the best Jen pringle's looked in a long time. 1780 01:41:24,620 --> 01:41:26,622 All right, i'm turning my light out now, miss Brooke. 1781 01:41:30,626 --> 01:41:31,627 Emmeline: Miss Shirley? 1782 01:41:39,593 --> 01:41:41,595 Emmeline! Oh, miss Shirley, you've got to help us. 1783 01:41:41,929 --> 01:41:43,597 Essie's brother needs the bicycle in the morning 1784 01:41:43,931 --> 01:41:45,599 for his delivery job, or he'll be fired, 1785 01:41:45,641 --> 01:41:47,559 and he's ready to murder essie. 1786 01:41:47,601 --> 01:41:49,603 We can't get the shed doors open. 1787 01:41:49,645 --> 01:41:50,604 Oh, she's awful scared, 1788 01:41:50,646 --> 01:41:51,772 and I'm afraid she'll faint. 1789 01:41:53,607 --> 01:41:55,609 Heaven preserve us from miss Brooke if she does. 1790 01:41:59,613 --> 01:42:02,699 Mr. Mctavish, the groundsman, keeps his tools in here. 1791 01:42:03,367 --> 01:42:05,619 Maybe we could saw the chain or pick the lock. 1792 01:42:05,744 --> 01:42:07,621 Stop whimpering, essie. 1793 01:42:10,958 --> 01:42:15,629 Emmeline, do you think you could squeeze through that skylight up above? 1794 01:42:16,588 --> 01:42:18,590 Uh-huh, if I had a ladder. 1795 01:42:19,591 --> 01:42:21,593 Come along. I've got a better idea. 1796 01:42:25,722 --> 01:42:28,600 All right, you go down first, and I'll shimmy down after you. 1797 01:42:28,725 --> 01:42:31,603 I'm frightened. I'm going to faint. 1798 01:42:31,728 --> 01:42:34,606 Oh, just hang on another moment, essie, and you can. 1799 01:42:37,609 --> 01:42:39,611 If anyone catches us, you don't ppose they'll think 1800 01:42:39,736 --> 01:42:42,614 we're trying to steal any- thing, do you, miss Shirley? 1801 01:42:42,739 --> 01:42:44,616 Our motives are hardly idle curiosity. 1802 01:42:46,577 --> 01:42:47,619 Emmeline: All right. 1803 01:43:01,884 --> 01:43:04,595 Untie the end, essie, and throw it down. 1804 01:43:16,690 --> 01:43:18,692 Essie: I don't think you should do this. 1805 01:43:28,660 --> 01:43:31,622 Oh, I hope the skylight's not locked, miss Shirley. 1806 01:43:38,670 --> 01:43:42,591 We're in luck. Mr. Mctavish has an army of tools down here. 1807 01:43:42,799 --> 01:43:45,594 Good, now if we can just... 1808 01:43:45,802 --> 01:43:47,471 Oh, miss Shirley! 1809 01:43:59,608 --> 01:44:01,610 Bed sheets! 1810 01:44:01,610 --> 01:44:03,612 Well now, Anne Shirley, where's the fire? 1811 01:44:11,620 --> 01:44:12,621 Anne: Good morning. 1812 01:44:12,704 --> 01:44:14,623 Good morning. 1813 01:44:15,624 --> 01:44:17,626 Good morning. 1814 01:44:21,630 --> 01:44:22,589 Good morning, class. 1815 01:44:22,589 --> 01:44:24,591 Girls: 1816 01:44:27,594 --> 01:44:29,596 Really, girls, 1817 01:44:29,596 --> 01:44:31,598 if you can't come up with a better likeness than that, 1818 01:44:31,598 --> 01:44:33,600 I suggest you give up altogether. 1819 01:44:39,606 --> 01:44:42,609 Open your Oxford book of verse, page 223. 1820 01:44:44,611 --> 01:44:47,614 Tennyson's "the lady of shalott". 1821 01:44:47,614 --> 01:44:51,618 Emmeline, would you please read the first four verses for us? 1822 01:44:51,618 --> 01:44:53,578 Then we'll discuss them. 1823 01:44:53,620 --> 01:44:54,621 Myra: My, my, 1824 01:44:54,621 --> 01:44:56,832 whose apple are we polishing now? 1825 01:44:57,249 --> 01:44:59,626 Let's hitch our wagon to a star, girls. 1826 01:44:59,793 --> 01:45:01,628 Girls: 1827 01:45:10,595 --> 01:45:14,266 Willows whiten, aspens quiver. 1828 01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,603 Little breezes dusk and shiver. 1829 01:45:19,646 --> 01:45:22,566 Through the wave that runs forever, 1830 01:45:22,607 --> 01:45:24,693 flowing down to Camelot. 1831 01:45:32,701 --> 01:45:33,618 Why are you late? 1832 01:45:33,827 --> 01:45:37,622 My mother insisted on keeping my maid this morning. 1833 01:45:37,831 --> 01:45:39,624 I had no one to darn my stockings. 1834 01:45:39,833 --> 01:45:42,627 Kingsport ladies' college does not tolerate tardiness, 1835 01:45:42,753 --> 01:45:43,628 nor do I. 1836 01:45:44,713 --> 01:45:45,839 Takout your dictionary, 1837 01:45:46,298 --> 01:45:48,508 and copy out the entire "a" section. 1838 01:45:49,676 --> 01:45:51,595 You will have to catch up on this class later. 1839 01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:55,682 There she kept her vigil only, 1840 01:45:56,141 --> 01:45:59,603 waiting in her chamber lonely, 1841 01:45:59,895 --> 01:46:03,648 and looked down to Camelot. 1842 01:46:03,899 --> 01:46:05,650 Reapers reaping fields of barley... 1843 01:46:05,901 --> 01:46:07,652 Are you trying to tell me that emmeline 1844 01:46:07,903 --> 01:46:10,655 is solely responsible for this misconduct? 1845 01:46:10,906 --> 01:46:12,657 I am not trying to tell you anything 1846 01:46:12,908 --> 01:46:14,659 other than that your daughter 1847 01:46:14,910 --> 01:46:17,662 has an overt disregard for regulations. 1848 01:46:17,913 --> 01:46:19,664 Stealing is stealing. 1849 01:46:19,915 --> 01:46:21,792 I don't see how you can pretend it to be otherwise. 1850 01:46:22,125 --> 01:46:24,669 This incident is the tip of the iceberg. 1851 01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:28,632 I believe she requires remedial discipline. 1852 01:46:28,882 --> 01:46:31,635 I want that teacher raked over the coals as well then. 1853 01:46:31,885 --> 01:46:33,637 I'd like nothing better, captain Harris, 1854 01:46:33,887 --> 01:46:35,764 but that will be for the board to decide. 1855 01:46:36,973 --> 01:46:40,644 Let me be perfectly clear, miss Brooke. 1856 01:46:40,894 --> 01:46:42,771 I will not allow emmeline... 1857 01:46:43,772 --> 01:46:45,649 To be expelled from any school. 1858 01:46:45,899 --> 01:46:47,275 I am with- drawing both my daughter 1859 01:46:47,609 --> 01:46:50,654 and my financial support from this second- rate institution... 1860 01:46:50,904 --> 01:46:51,863 Immediately. 1861 01:46:53,782 --> 01:46:57,327 You can reckon with the oard of governors. 1862 01:46:57,619 --> 01:47:00,414 There she weaves by night and day, 1863 01:47:00,789 --> 01:47:03,750 a magic web of colours gay. 1864 01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:06,002 She has heard a whisper say, 1865 01:47:06,420 --> 01:47:08,713 "curses on her if she stay 1866 01:47:08,964 --> 01:47:11,716 to look down on Camelot." 1867 01:47:11,967 --> 01:47:12,843 Myra/jen: 1868 01:47:14,845 --> 01:47:15,846 I have warned you two about food in class. 1869 01:47:19,850 --> 01:47:21,685 Bring that parcel here, Myra. 1870 01:47:23,854 --> 01:47:24,855 Bring that parcel here. 1871 01:47:33,864 --> 01:47:35,740 Throw it in the stove. 1872 01:47:35,991 --> 01:47:38,743 Are you sure you really want me to do this? 1873 01:47:38,994 --> 01:47:40,871 Myra, obey me at once. 1874 01:47:48,170 --> 01:47:49,171 Girl: Why is she running? 1875 01:47:58,597 --> 01:47:59,598 Run, girls! 1876 01:48:03,059 --> 01:48:03,977 Girls, run! 1877 01:48:06,229 --> 01:48:07,355 Run, girls! 1878 01:48:07,772 --> 01:48:09,065 Essie: No! 1879 01:48:10,066 --> 01:48:10,984 Run! 1880 01:48:11,234 --> 01:48:12,402 My skirt is caught. 1881 01:48:18,825 --> 01:48:19,993 Girls: 1882 01:48:22,245 --> 01:48:23,246 Captain Harris: Emmeline! 1883 01:48:24,623 --> 01:48:26,082 Papa! Papa! 1884 01:48:27,083 --> 01:48:28,460 Papa, you came. 1885 01:48:30,962 --> 01:48:33,965 March straight out to the car, young lady, and... 1886 01:48:34,591 --> 01:48:36,593 And take off those ridiculous- looking spectacles. 1887 01:48:36,718 --> 01:48:38,595 You shouldn't be wearing them, other than for reading. 1888 01:48:39,846 --> 01:48:42,599 Miss Brooke: Shut that blasted alarm bell off. 1889 01:48:42,724 --> 01:48:43,600 This is my teacher, miss Shirley. 1890 01:48:43,725 --> 01:48:45,602 Captain Harris: Miss Shirley, is it? 1891 01:48:45,727 --> 01:48:48,605 We've met before, if I'm not mistaken. 1892 01:48:48,730 --> 01:48:51,608 Yes, sir, I remember. 1893 01:48:53,610 --> 01:48:54,611 Come on, essie. 1894 01:48:54,736 --> 01:48:56,613 What in the devil have you done now? 1895 01:48:56,738 --> 01:48:58,615 Captain Harris: Miss Shirley's got the entire academy 1896 01:48:58,740 --> 01:49:02,619 awaiting your remedial discipline, miss Brooke. 1897 01:49:02,827 --> 01:49:04,829 I'm quite positive you'll enjoy the challenge. 1898 01:49:05,247 --> 01:49:06,665 Emmeline, come along. 1899 01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:09,459 You're leaving this fourth-rate institution once and for all. 1900 01:49:12,837 --> 01:49:14,631 Miss McKay: Girls, girls, get away from that auto car. 1901 01:49:37,779 --> 01:49:38,822 What sort of things are being said! 1902 01:49:39,322 --> 01:49:42,117 Well, Hattie pringle; You are accused of 'marking down' 1903 01:49:42,534 --> 01:49:46,788 her papers just because she is a pringle. 1904 01:49:46,955 --> 01:49:49,791 Here you are said to laugh at the students 1905 01:49:49,958 --> 01:49:51,793 when they make mistakes. 1906 01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:53,795 What? 1907 01:49:55,046 --> 01:49:57,799 Well alright I did laugh when Myra pringle defined 1908 01:49:57,966 --> 01:49:59,801 an alligator as "a large kind of insect". 1909 01:49:59,968 --> 01:50:01,803 I couldn't help myself. 1910 01:50:03,805 --> 01:50:05,807 Oh dear. 1911 01:50:05,974 --> 01:50:09,811 Mr. James pringle, the father of Jen pringle claims that there 1912 01:50:09,978 --> 01:50:12,814 is no discipline whatsoever at the school since your arrival 1913 01:50:12,981 --> 01:50:19,779 and he is circulating a report that you are a "foundling" 1914 01:50:19,946 --> 01:50:22,532 well, it goes on and on. 1915 01:50:22,782 --> 01:50:24,784 Almost every pringle parent has written the board demanding, 1916 01:50:24,951 --> 01:50:28,788 not requesting, demanding your resignation. 1917 01:50:28,955 --> 01:50:30,790 Oh those cantankerous, prejudiced old creatures! 1918 01:50:30,957 --> 01:50:33,793 How can anyone possibly succeed against such tactics! 1919 01:50:33,960 --> 01:50:34,794 I'm so sorry Anne. 1920 01:50:35,003 --> 01:50:36,796 I do feel responsible... 1921 01:50:37,047 --> 01:50:38,798 Well, on behalf of the 15 students who aren't pringles 1922 01:50:39,049 --> 01:50:42,802 I am determined to persevere. 1923 01:50:43,053 --> 01:50:47,515 Captain Harris has withdrawn his rather substantial financial 1924 01:50:47,807 --> 01:50:50,518 support towards the college mortgage and several of the 1925 01:50:50,894 --> 01:50:53,813 other pringle families are threatening to do the same... 1926 01:50:54,064 --> 01:50:56,399 I see. 1927 01:50:56,816 --> 01:50:58,818 So you want me to resign as well. 1928 01:50:59,069 --> 01:50:59,819 Never. 1929 01:51:00,070 --> 01:51:01,780 The board wants you to resign. 1930 01:51:01,988 --> 01:51:04,783 I want you to stay here and make these pringles eat their words. 1931 01:51:05,033 --> 01:51:07,786 If money is deemed to be the power behind this institution, 1932 01:51:08,036 --> 01:51:09,871 well then you my dear Anne, are going to compensate for every 1933 01:51:10,205 --> 01:51:12,791 single penny that's been lost. 1934 01:51:13,041 --> 01:51:13,792 But how? 1935 01:51:14,042 --> 01:51:14,834 Shall I give up my salary? 1936 01:51:15,085 --> 01:51:16,795 Oh no my dear. 1937 01:51:17,045 --> 01:51:18,254 Oh no, no, no... 1938 01:51:18,672 --> 01:51:20,799 I am going to insist that the board give you a probationary 1939 01:51:21,049 --> 01:51:23,718 term at least until Christmas. 1940 01:51:23,885 --> 01:51:26,304 In the meantime might you consider mounting a lavish 1941 01:51:26,721 --> 01:51:29,099 benefit concert? 1942 01:51:29,724 --> 01:51:33,895 Highlighting a play perhaps directed by a miss Anne Shirley... 1943 01:51:34,187 --> 01:51:37,899 It will have to be something with a number of superb roles 1944 01:51:38,149 --> 01:51:38,900 in it though. 1945 01:51:39,150 --> 01:51:41,695 And strong dramatic content. 1946 01:51:41,903 --> 01:51:43,863 The audience will have to be completely overwhelmed. 1947 01:51:44,114 --> 01:51:45,865 I think every pringle parent would gladly pay to see their 1948 01:51:46,116 --> 01:51:49,869 daughter's names in the program, don't you think! 1949 01:51:50,120 --> 01:51:54,916 Let's see uh, 100 tickets at $25 a ticket why that makes 1950 01:51:55,166 --> 01:52:00,880 exactly $2500.... 1951 01:52:01,131 --> 01:52:02,882 That's an outrageous price! 1952 01:52:03,133 --> 01:52:04,968 Do you honestly think anyone would pay for that? 1953 01:52:05,343 --> 01:52:09,889 Yes, and all the money will go directly to the school. 1954 01:52:10,140 --> 01:52:14,978 You are perfectly ingenious miss Stacey. 1955 01:52:15,270 --> 01:52:17,897 We'll show the pringles the meaning 1956 01:52:18,148 --> 01:52:20,900 of the word "capitalism". 1957 01:52:21,151 --> 01:52:25,238 Just a minute Anne, I think that you should have 1958 01:52:25,697 --> 01:52:26,865 a look at these old diaries. 1959 01:52:27,115 --> 01:52:29,284 Mrs. Stanton, our librarian, and I are preparing a history 1960 01:52:29,784 --> 01:52:30,869 of kingsport and we literally stumbled across 1961 01:52:31,119 --> 01:52:32,871 those in the archives. 1962 01:52:33,121 --> 01:52:35,290 They were written by captain Abraham pringle 1963 01:52:35,749 --> 01:52:39,043 the founder of kingsport. 1964 01:52:41,045 --> 01:52:44,799 My dear Anne, if you want to win the game 1965 01:52:45,049 --> 01:52:47,969 you have to understand the players. 1966 01:52:48,219 --> 01:52:50,972 I see. 1967 01:52:51,222 --> 01:52:55,810 "And so, for the last time the old teacher passed by the cruel 1968 01:52:56,060 --> 01:53:00,774 portrait of herself etched in the wall by her former students. 1969 01:53:01,065 --> 01:53:03,985 Gertrude glimpsed the old woman's haughty loneliness 1970 01:53:04,235 --> 01:53:06,946 as she retreated silently into the garden. 1971 01:53:07,197 --> 01:53:08,948 Shortly thereafter they learned that the hand of death 1972 01:53:09,199 --> 01:53:11,576 had touched her. 1973 01:53:11,785 --> 01:53:13,953 And gertrude was haunted by the realization that she could 1974 01:53:14,204 --> 01:53:18,958 never thank the woman who had silently given her so much. 1975 01:53:19,209 --> 01:53:23,046 It was more than she could bear". 1976 01:53:25,048 --> 01:53:26,966 At this point in the term I would like to dedicate this 1977 01:53:27,217 --> 01:53:29,427 short story to each of you young ladies who have made 1978 01:53:29,803 --> 01:53:33,807 the first few weeks here for me so meaningful. 1979 01:53:34,057 --> 01:53:38,144 Class dismissed. 1980 01:53:39,813 --> 01:53:41,064 What are these girls crying for? 1981 01:53:41,314 --> 01:53:44,150 I've been reading them a short story, miss Brooke. 1982 01:53:47,153 --> 01:53:53,034 Good grief - crying over an English lesson! 1983 01:53:53,284 --> 01:53:55,954 Miss Brooke is here to discuss my suggestion of a play 1984 01:53:56,246 --> 01:53:57,038 and benefit concert. 1985 01:53:57,288 --> 01:54:00,041 I think it's scandalous, but my opinion matters little 1986 01:54:00,291 --> 01:54:03,878 since the school needs the funds. 1987 01:54:04,128 --> 01:54:05,797 Exactly. 1988 01:54:06,130 --> 01:54:09,050 I was hoping you would assist me in the coaching, miss Brooke. 1989 01:54:09,300 --> 01:54:10,760 I don't know why you would. 1990 01:54:10,927 --> 01:54:12,053 Since I had nothing to do with drawing up 1991 01:54:12,303 --> 01:54:14,055 this ridiculous scheme! 1992 01:54:14,305 --> 01:54:17,058 The most important question is, then, who shall play the leading 1993 01:54:17,308 --> 01:54:19,060 role of Mary queen of Scots? 1994 01:54:19,310 --> 01:54:21,062 I think - we don't want any green horn in the role. 1995 01:54:21,312 --> 01:54:22,814 I'm not going to be associated with anything 1996 01:54:23,147 --> 01:54:24,065 that isn't successful. 1997 01:54:24,315 --> 01:54:26,067 Jen pringle is the only one I can think of who could 1998 01:54:26,317 --> 01:54:28,069 play the part. 1999 01:54:28,319 --> 01:54:32,365 No one else has the necessary personality. 2000 01:54:32,824 --> 01:54:37,120 I can't deny that Jen has a natural flair for acting. 2001 01:54:37,370 --> 01:54:39,038 Then it's all settled. 2002 01:54:39,330 --> 01:54:41,124 Why, I think miss Brooke will make an excellent coach. 2003 01:54:41,374 --> 01:54:43,126 And miss mackay and miss kerr can do the decorations 2004 01:54:43,376 --> 01:54:47,130 and I'll see to the hiring of the hall and the band. 2005 01:54:47,380 --> 01:54:50,133 Perhaps I can even entice a famous soprano from fredericton 2006 01:54:50,383 --> 01:54:52,135 to sing between acts at no charge! 2007 01:54:52,385 --> 01:54:54,137 I trust she'll sing for the creditors 2008 01:54:54,387 --> 01:54:55,805 if the whole thing flops! 2009 01:54:56,014 --> 01:54:58,766 But, don't say I didn't warn you! 2010 01:55:08,818 --> 01:55:12,238 Make your brush stroke move like furious fire. 2011 01:55:12,780 --> 01:55:17,201 Let the flame shoot out furiously! 2012 01:55:19,162 --> 01:55:21,039 Make great big stitches so they won't show. 2013 01:55:21,331 --> 01:55:21,998 I implore you! 2014 01:55:22,248 --> 01:55:22,999 Don't just stand there like limp rags... 2015 01:55:23,374 --> 01:55:23,958 Help me, help me. 2016 01:55:24,208 --> 01:55:25,126 Feel it, feel it! 2017 01:55:25,376 --> 01:55:26,127 Let go the queen. 2018 01:55:26,377 --> 01:55:27,962 Myra, you're using you upstage hand. 2019 01:55:28,212 --> 01:55:30,131 You're hiding your face. 2020 01:55:30,381 --> 01:55:33,593 Help me my mistress, have mercy. 2021 01:55:34,802 --> 01:55:38,723 Mercy nay I am innocent. 2022 01:55:39,807 --> 01:55:42,810 Save me sweet lady. 2023 01:55:42,936 --> 01:55:45,813 Will ye slay save me too? 2024 01:55:45,939 --> 01:55:49,275 Drag him away, pluck his hands off her. 2025 01:55:49,692 --> 01:55:50,818 This scene looks ridiculous. 2026 01:55:50,944 --> 01:55:53,446 I am not gonna lower myself any further. 2027 01:55:53,780 --> 01:55:54,781 Hattie you're as stiff as a poker! 2028 01:55:54,906 --> 01:55:56,783 I can't help it. 2029 01:55:56,908 --> 01:55:57,784 I don't want to bruise myself. 2030 01:55:57,909 --> 01:56:01,704 If I can go down easily, I will. 2031 01:56:01,788 --> 01:56:03,790 You've all seen essie carrying on. 2032 01:56:03,915 --> 01:56:06,793 Now do it this way. 2033 01:56:06,918 --> 01:56:10,797 I am innocent, save me sweet lady. 2034 01:56:10,922 --> 01:56:12,799 Oh! 2035 01:56:12,924 --> 01:56:14,801 ...now the queen she orders the guards to halt. 2036 01:56:14,926 --> 01:56:17,804 But the guards drag rizzio away. Drag me. 2037 01:56:19,305 --> 01:56:21,307 Now Hattie, you try it. 2038 01:56:23,309 --> 01:56:29,232 I am innocent, save me sweet lady uh huh, uh huh. 2039 01:56:29,482 --> 01:56:32,235 I refuse to play opposite her. 2040 01:56:32,485 --> 01:56:35,363 She is the only one who can be remotely convincing 2041 01:56:35,363 --> 01:56:37,365 as an Italian musician. 2042 01:56:38,366 --> 01:56:40,284 Do what you can miss Brooke. 2043 01:56:40,535 --> 01:56:43,037 Well, don't blame me if the audience leaves. 2044 01:56:45,373 --> 01:56:49,377 Once more Hattie, and please relax! 2045 01:56:53,006 --> 01:56:54,924 Emmeline! 2046 01:56:55,174 --> 01:56:55,925 Emmeline! 2047 01:56:56,384 --> 01:56:58,803 What is it, what is it? 2048 01:57:02,807 --> 01:57:05,143 We've missed having you in our play. 2049 01:57:06,436 --> 01:57:09,731 Oh, I'm so sorry about what happened with your father. 2050 01:57:09,814 --> 01:57:11,733 Once everything's calmed down I'm hoping I can get a chance 2051 01:57:11,816 --> 01:57:15,737 to speak with him and try to explain. 2052 01:57:15,778 --> 01:57:17,488 He isn't here. 2053 01:57:17,780 --> 01:57:20,074 He's gone back to Boston. 2054 01:57:20,491 --> 01:57:23,745 Oh, miss Shirley, I've always wanted to do a play... 2055 01:57:23,786 --> 01:57:27,707 I've never had much of a chance to do anything. 2056 01:57:27,790 --> 01:57:31,711 Papa will never let me come back to this school. 2057 01:57:31,794 --> 01:57:34,714 I am to spend the rest of the year with grandmama, alone. 2058 01:57:34,797 --> 01:57:38,676 Oh emmeline... 2059 01:57:39,469 --> 01:57:41,387 Perhaps I can get another copy of the play. 2060 01:57:41,637 --> 01:57:44,390 I'll coach you at home, if you like. 2061 01:57:44,640 --> 01:57:46,392 I'm sure your father will let you come back 2062 01:57:46,642 --> 01:57:48,394 to college next term. 2063 01:57:48,644 --> 01:57:49,395 I don't think so. 2064 01:57:49,645 --> 01:57:51,481 I don't think grandmama will either. 2065 01:57:51,814 --> 01:57:55,485 I had to sneak out while she and aunt pauline were napping. 2066 01:57:58,446 --> 01:58:01,365 Is someone helping you along with your studies? 2067 01:58:01,616 --> 01:58:04,952 You don't want to fall behind. 2068 01:58:06,454 --> 01:58:10,792 Well, then I shall have to have a chat with your grandmama. 2069 01:58:11,209 --> 01:58:14,378 Will you? 2070 01:58:14,629 --> 01:58:16,380 You should hurry along home. 2071 01:58:16,631 --> 01:58:18,257 You don't want to get her cross. 2072 01:58:18,508 --> 01:58:20,384 And I promise I will come by tomorrow 2073 01:58:20,635 --> 01:58:23,471 and I will speak with her. 2074 01:58:26,474 --> 01:58:28,392 Oh, it's number 10 mapple terrace 2075 01:58:28,643 --> 01:58:29,393 you won't forget... 2076 01:58:29,644 --> 01:58:31,395 Of course not. 2077 01:58:31,646 --> 01:58:33,481 Off you go. 2078 01:59:07,557 --> 01:59:08,558 Yes? 2079 01:59:08,808 --> 01:59:10,309 I should like to speak with Mrs. Harris. 2080 01:59:10,309 --> 01:59:11,477 My name is - you can't. 2081 01:59:11,727 --> 01:59:13,479 She is ill and won't be disturbed. 2082 01:59:13,729 --> 01:59:14,647 Good day. 2083 01:59:14,730 --> 01:59:17,483 May I speak with emmeline Harris, then? 2084 01:59:17,733 --> 01:59:20,570 She isn't allowed to have visitors. 2085 01:59:20,778 --> 01:59:24,448 Is captain Harris coming back to - lives in Boston miss. 2086 01:59:24,699 --> 01:59:26,450 Seldom visits here. 2087 01:59:26,701 --> 01:59:31,455 Could you tell emmeline that Anne Shirley came to see her? 2088 01:59:31,706 --> 01:59:33,791 Thank you. 2089 02:00:00,568 --> 02:00:07,033 I thought you might be interested in these 2090 02:00:07,533 --> 02:00:11,454 diaries belonging to captain Abraham pringle, which I found 2091 02:00:11,704 --> 02:00:14,457 in the city archives. 2092 02:00:14,707 --> 02:00:17,460 There are some wonderful tributes in here by captain 2093 02:00:17,710 --> 02:00:21,464 pringle to your late husband, captain Harris. 2094 02:00:21,714 --> 02:00:24,467 I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did. 2095 02:00:24,717 --> 02:00:29,347 Sincerely, Anne Shirley, kingsport ladies college. 2096 02:00:32,558 --> 02:00:37,271 I have a delivery for miss Shirley. 2097 02:00:37,438 --> 02:00:38,105 Well you're in luck. 2098 02:00:38,147 --> 02:00:39,649 I am miss Shirley. 2099 02:00:40,650 --> 02:00:42,652 Thank you. 2100 02:00:56,123 --> 02:00:59,627 So then it's tomorrow at noon is it Mrs. Harris... 2101 02:01:23,651 --> 02:01:26,570 Miss Shirley madam. 2102 02:01:27,613 --> 02:01:29,532 Mama. 2103 02:01:29,782 --> 02:01:31,659 Mama... 2104 02:01:32,118 --> 02:01:34,620 Good grief girl you're aggravating! 2105 02:01:34,787 --> 02:01:37,623 Miss Shirley. 2106 02:01:37,790 --> 02:01:38,708 What? 2107 02:01:38,791 --> 02:01:41,711 Miss Shirley! 2108 02:01:45,464 --> 02:01:48,718 Saints alive, why didn't you say so in the first place? 2109 02:01:51,721 --> 02:01:54,890 So, this is the infamous miss Shirley. 2110 02:01:54,890 --> 02:01:58,227 Come to take her pound of flesh has she... 2111 02:01:59,020 --> 02:02:00,813 How do you do Mrs. Harris? 2112 02:02:01,063 --> 02:02:03,733 Far from well. 2113 02:02:04,483 --> 02:02:08,112 How much do you want for these diaries? 2114 02:02:08,154 --> 02:02:11,699 I hadn't any intention of selling them. 2115 02:02:13,034 --> 02:02:17,621 Is there any use in asking you to sit down? 2116 02:02:17,621 --> 02:02:18,873 Yes... 2117 02:02:18,873 --> 02:02:20,750 Thank you. 2118 02:02:21,667 --> 02:02:25,171 Who else has seen these things? 2119 02:02:25,379 --> 02:02:29,508 No one as far as I know. 2120 02:02:29,759 --> 02:02:32,678 Then I'm ready to negotiate. 2121 02:02:32,803 --> 02:02:38,809 I will give you what you want if you give me your word not 2122 02:02:38,809 --> 02:02:45,816 to reveal this monstrosity to the rest of the pringles. 2123 02:02:46,025 --> 02:02:48,736 I was only hoping I might convince you to let me tutor 2124 02:02:48,778 --> 02:02:50,738 your granddaughter emmeline as I understand 2125 02:02:50,780 --> 02:02:53,699 that she will not be returning to school. 2126 02:02:53,783 --> 02:02:56,160 Oh clever aren't we? 2127 02:02:56,160 --> 02:02:59,330 Sugarcoated blackmail! 2128 02:02:59,330 --> 02:03:05,711 You want a regular salary to keep you quiet, is that it? 2129 02:03:05,795 --> 02:03:07,963 Beg your pardon? 2130 02:03:07,963 --> 02:03:12,426 Innocent as doves, cunning as serpents. 2131 02:03:12,426 --> 02:03:15,721 You knew when you found that scandalous entry 2132 02:03:15,805 --> 02:03:17,306 about my husband it wasn't true. 2133 02:03:17,306 --> 02:03:19,225 It couldn't be true! 2134 02:03:19,225 --> 02:03:21,352 The rest of the pringles will be Dee-lighted 2135 02:03:21,352 --> 02:03:23,104 to believe it won't they? 2136 02:03:23,104 --> 02:03:27,817 And make us the laughing stock of kingsport! 2137 02:03:28,234 --> 02:03:30,736 Which scandalous entry? 2138 02:03:30,778 --> 02:03:34,698 Oh, so there's more than one, is there? 2139 02:03:34,782 --> 02:03:36,784 Pauline. 2140 02:03:45,876 --> 02:03:50,798 Josiah Harris' ship was burned and their boats taken. 2141 02:03:51,048 --> 02:03:53,801 Harris and the crew nearly starved. 2142 02:03:54,051 --> 02:04:03,811 In the end they ate...They ate Jonas selkirk who had shot himself 2143 02:04:04,061 --> 02:04:07,815 they lived on him until rescued. 2144 02:04:08,065 --> 02:04:09,817 Harris told me himself. 2145 02:04:10,693 --> 02:04:14,864 Seemed to think it was a good joke. 2146 02:04:16,282 --> 02:04:18,784 On occasion papa would get so angry... 2147 02:04:18,784 --> 02:04:19,869 Pauline! 2148 02:04:19,869 --> 02:04:21,579 Be quiet! 2149 02:04:21,787 --> 02:04:23,789 That is a lie. 2150 02:04:24,206 --> 02:04:27,626 My husband never ate anyone dead or alive. 2151 02:04:27,626 --> 02:04:30,296 Let alone Jonas selkirk. 2152 02:04:30,296 --> 02:04:32,673 Abraham pringle wrote that nonsense 2153 02:04:32,673 --> 02:04:34,800 to get a rise out of his silly wife. 2154 02:04:35,050 --> 02:04:38,888 Amy pringle was notoriously gullible. 2155 02:04:39,138 --> 02:04:42,892 Oh, please miss Shirley, don't show these to anyone. 2156 02:04:43,142 --> 02:04:45,436 Our pringle relations might publicize it. 2157 02:04:45,728 --> 02:04:46,896 We'll do anything! 2158 02:04:46,896 --> 02:04:48,898 Ow. 2159 02:04:49,148 --> 02:04:50,274 Now miss Shirley. 2160 02:04:50,274 --> 02:04:55,613 How much do you want to 'tutor' my granddaughter? 2161 02:04:55,696 --> 02:04:58,824 Oh you've misunderstood me completely. 2162 02:04:59,074 --> 02:05:00,868 I'm not threatening you! 2163 02:05:01,118 --> 02:05:03,621 I just thought you'd enjoy all the other splendid things 2164 02:05:03,621 --> 02:05:05,498 said about your husband. 2165 02:05:05,748 --> 02:05:08,334 I never dreamed of telling anyone he was a cannibal. 2166 02:05:11,795 --> 02:05:17,927 Well naturally we tend to be a little suspicious of strangers 2167 02:05:18,219 --> 02:05:23,933 in kingsport, perhaps we have misjudged you. 2168 02:05:24,183 --> 02:05:28,521 I suppose the child should continue with her studies. 2169 02:05:28,812 --> 02:05:29,939 Pauline has no time. 2170 02:05:30,189 --> 02:05:34,944 She's busy looking after me. 2171 02:05:35,194 --> 02:05:37,988 You won't mention this misunderstanding 2172 02:05:38,280 --> 02:05:39,990 to anyone will you? 2173 02:05:41,075 --> 02:05:46,622 I'll try to remember not to... 2174 02:05:46,622 --> 02:05:50,000 And when do you want to start? 2175 02:05:50,251 --> 02:05:51,544 Immediately. 2176 02:05:51,544 --> 02:05:53,879 Hmm. 2177 02:05:54,421 --> 02:05:56,924 If two angles in a triangle are equal to each other 2178 02:05:56,924 --> 02:06:01,303 the sides opposite these two angles are equal to each other. 2179 02:06:03,180 --> 02:06:06,308 Emmeline, why hasn't anyone replaced your spectacles? 2180 02:06:06,308 --> 02:06:08,352 Well, papa says I don't really need to wear them 2181 02:06:08,352 --> 02:06:10,437 as much as I do. 2182 02:06:10,437 --> 02:06:13,232 And grandmama won't because she's an old skin-flint! 2183 02:06:13,816 --> 02:06:14,984 Who gave you those, then? 2184 02:06:15,234 --> 02:06:18,946 Mother's superior at the convent in Boston two years ago. 2185 02:06:19,196 --> 02:06:21,782 Anyway, I'm only supposed to use them for reading. 2186 02:06:21,782 --> 02:06:22,950 You simply cannot use them anymore. 2187 02:06:23,200 --> 02:06:26,161 You must have another pair! 2188 02:06:31,542 --> 02:06:35,879 I found another copy - Mary queen of Scots! 2189 02:06:35,879 --> 02:06:39,425 Oh, her very name just thrills me to my fingertips! 2190 02:06:39,425 --> 02:06:42,261 I don't believe she really murdered darnley, do you? 2191 02:06:42,261 --> 02:06:44,096 Shh! 2192 02:06:44,096 --> 02:06:47,558 Heaven help you two if you wake her up! 2193 02:06:47,558 --> 02:06:50,811 I think it's ever so dramatic, don't you? 2194 02:06:50,811 --> 02:06:53,063 It's a very challenging role. 2195 02:06:53,063 --> 02:06:56,150 We used to have dramatics and music at the convent. 2196 02:06:56,150 --> 02:06:59,278 Mother superior said I was quite good at both. 2197 02:06:59,278 --> 02:07:02,239 She taught me to play the piano too, you know. 2198 02:07:02,239 --> 02:07:05,159 Unfortunately, grandmama won't let me touch it. 2199 02:07:05,993 --> 02:07:08,078 C-Could we read it together? 2200 02:07:08,078 --> 02:07:09,246 I think so. 2201 02:07:09,496 --> 02:07:12,791 I'll play all of the other parts and you read Mary. 2202 02:07:13,876 --> 02:07:15,419 Let's start here. 2203 02:07:16,462 --> 02:07:19,548 "Forgive all evil toward me of all men, 2204 02:07:19,673 --> 02:07:21,717 deed or device to hurt me. " 2205 02:07:22,343 --> 02:07:25,888 Yea, I would not bear one heart unreconciled with mine 2206 02:07:25,888 --> 02:07:28,015 when mine is cold. 2207 02:07:28,015 --> 02:07:32,102 I will not take death's hand with any soil of hate or wrath 2208 02:07:32,102 --> 02:07:37,191 or wrong about me but being friends with this past world 2209 02:07:37,608 --> 02:07:41,403 pass from it in the general peace of love. 2210 02:07:43,781 --> 02:07:45,616 That was wonderful! 2211 02:07:45,908 --> 02:07:49,119 Thank you for bringing me here, miss Shirley. 2212 02:07:49,119 --> 02:07:50,788 This will be our secret place, 2213 02:07:50,788 --> 02:07:53,332 cannot reveal to anyone. 2214 02:07:54,083 --> 02:07:56,293 Grandmama never lets me out alone. 2215 02:07:56,293 --> 02:07:59,338 She thinks I'm liable to be "kidnapped by gypsies". 2216 02:08:00,923 --> 02:08:03,634 I don't know why she'd care if I was kidnapped. 2217 02:08:03,634 --> 02:08:06,804 All she worries about is her aching back and her sore feet. 2218 02:08:07,179 --> 02:08:07,971 Now, now. 2219 02:08:08,347 --> 02:08:11,100 Old people cling to the way they were brought up themselves. 2220 02:08:11,350 --> 02:08:13,852 Secretly she hates me. 2221 02:08:13,852 --> 02:08:16,647 She always calls me "the child" 2222 02:08:16,647 --> 02:08:19,191 as though I may be "the dog" or "the cat". 2223 02:08:19,483 --> 02:08:22,111 If I make a spark of noise she nearly passes out. 2224 02:08:22,361 --> 02:08:26,490 She's an old tyrant and someday I'm going to run away forever 2225 02:08:26,490 --> 02:08:29,785 and become a real actress. 2226 02:08:34,665 --> 02:08:38,127 Why have you never lived with your father? 2227 02:08:38,377 --> 02:08:42,589 He's very occupied with his business affairs. 2228 02:08:42,589 --> 02:08:46,176 I was at two other boarding schools before I came to this one, 2229 02:08:46,176 --> 02:08:48,554 but he brought me here...So I'd be close to grandmama. 2230 02:08:48,554 --> 02:08:51,265 And so he wouldn't have to worry about me. 2231 02:08:51,557 --> 02:08:54,268 I'm sure he means to do what's best. 2232 02:08:57,271 --> 02:09:00,441 What Jen pringle said about papa hurt you know... 2233 02:09:01,859 --> 02:09:04,486 Because it's true. 2234 02:09:05,028 --> 02:09:10,242 "Dear papa. I want so much to return to klc. 2235 02:09:10,576 --> 02:09:13,871 No - I would like to ask you to allow me to go back 2236 02:09:13,871 --> 02:09:16,165 to klc next term. 2237 02:09:16,165 --> 02:09:19,168 I was at the top of class before I left. 2238 02:09:19,418 --> 02:09:23,255 I'd hoped you'd be proud of my grades. 2239 02:09:23,797 --> 02:09:26,884 Please understand it was all a mistake. 2240 02:09:27,968 --> 02:09:30,596 I tried to reach you in Baltimore, but I suppose 2241 02:09:30,804 --> 02:09:33,015 you never received the letter. " 2242 02:09:38,812 --> 02:09:41,815 Miss Shirley is here for your tutorial, miss. 2243 02:09:41,857 --> 02:09:42,816 Thank you. 2244 02:09:55,204 --> 02:09:56,538 Miss Shirley! 2245 02:09:57,372 --> 02:10:00,000 Grandmama will eat you alive. 2246 02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:01,752 If we are to have our studies in this room, 2247 02:10:01,752 --> 02:10:04,421 I simply cannot tolerate the gloominess any longer. 2248 02:10:05,130 --> 02:10:07,758 I have a wonderful surprise for you. 2249 02:10:07,758 --> 02:10:10,761 Miss Stacey has lent me a royal conservatory programme, 2250 02:10:10,761 --> 02:10:12,221 and you can begin today! 2251 02:10:12,221 --> 02:10:12,846 I can't. 2252 02:10:12,846 --> 02:10:14,223 Grandmama has forbidden me to touch... 2253 02:10:14,223 --> 02:10:15,474 Fiddlesticks! 2254 02:10:15,474 --> 02:10:17,309 It's high time someone reminded your grandmama 2255 02:10:17,309 --> 02:10:19,144 what a piano sounds like... 2256 02:10:19,394 --> 02:10:21,021 And it shouldn't be me. 2257 02:10:21,605 --> 02:10:23,232 You can start with these elementary exercises 2258 02:10:23,232 --> 02:10:24,858 as a refresher course. 2259 02:10:24,983 --> 02:10:26,485 You will be on your own though, 2260 02:10:26,652 --> 02:10:29,279 but it's a step in the right direction. 2261 02:10:29,404 --> 02:10:31,156 I'll get your textbooks. 2262 02:10:31,406 --> 02:10:33,200 Play! 2263 02:10:56,265 --> 02:11:00,102 Pauline, come here girl! 2264 02:11:00,477 --> 02:11:05,732 We will answer and we will tell them we cannot accept. 2265 02:11:06,567 --> 02:11:08,652 Mama wants her stationary Abigail. 2266 02:11:09,236 --> 02:11:12,906 Who on earth is making that confounded racket? 2267 02:11:13,740 --> 02:11:16,785 That piano isn't meant to be played! 2268 02:11:19,872 --> 02:11:21,999 Get away from there, child! 2269 02:11:22,457 --> 02:11:24,668 Who gave you permission to play that piano? 2270 02:11:24,877 --> 02:11:27,045 I'm sorry Mrs. Harris, but emmeline must be allowed 2271 02:11:27,045 --> 02:11:28,797 to devote some time to musical studies. 2272 02:11:29,047 --> 02:11:32,259 I don't believe in young girls playing the piano in public. 2273 02:11:32,718 --> 02:11:35,888 It tends to make them bold and forward. 2274 02:11:36,972 --> 02:11:39,892 Why, I think perhaps you are wise Mrs. Harris. 2275 02:11:40,142 --> 02:11:42,644 However, I'm told that most of the young pringle girls in 2276 02:11:42,978 --> 02:11:44,897 kingsport have private lessons. 2277 02:11:45,147 --> 02:11:45,898 Oh? 2278 02:11:46,148 --> 02:11:47,900 You just wouldn't want to be accused of negligence in 2279 02:11:48,150 --> 02:11:50,903 emmeline's proper upbringing? 2280 02:11:51,153 --> 02:11:52,154 No. 2281 02:11:52,487 --> 02:11:56,867 Who gave you permission to open those windows? 2282 02:11:57,117 --> 02:12:00,871 I just wanted your staff to see how dusty this room is. 2283 02:12:01,121 --> 02:12:02,873 It needs a thorough going over. 2284 02:12:03,123 --> 02:12:04,875 Well, have it your way. 2285 02:12:05,125 --> 02:12:07,336 You young people are all so giddy! 2286 02:12:08,003 --> 02:12:10,797 Pauline wants to go away and leave me. 2287 02:12:11,006 --> 02:12:12,966 It's only for the day mama. 2288 02:12:13,342 --> 02:12:15,594 Only for a day says she! 2289 02:12:15,802 --> 02:12:18,805 It doesn't seem to occur to anyone that I'd like a day out 2290 02:12:18,805 --> 02:12:20,807 of this confounded wheelchair. 2291 02:12:20,933 --> 02:12:23,644 You may not have the use of your legs grandmama, 2292 02:12:23,644 --> 02:12:25,437 but there's nothing the matter with your tongue. 2293 02:12:26,104 --> 02:12:28,941 Don't you dare to be impertinent, child. 2294 02:12:28,941 --> 02:12:33,362 I know a girl who died in her sleep after being impertinent. 2295 02:12:36,698 --> 02:12:37,658 Pauline, what is it? 2296 02:12:37,783 --> 02:12:44,665 Uh, my cousin Louisa is celebrating her wedding 2297 02:12:44,790 --> 02:12:48,669 anniversary in fredericton next week, and I was her bridesmaid 2298 02:12:48,794 --> 02:12:51,672 fifteen years ago, and i'd do anything to be there. 2299 02:12:51,797 --> 02:12:56,593 Well, if I die alone, while you're away, pauline, 2300 02:12:56,593 --> 02:12:57,678 I leave it to your conscience. 2301 02:12:57,803 --> 02:13:00,681 I know what a burden I can be. 2302 02:13:00,806 --> 02:13:02,557 Mama please don't excite yourself. 2303 02:13:02,557 --> 02:13:03,767 I'm not going to go if you're not willing. 2304 02:13:03,809 --> 02:13:05,686 I will excite myself. 2305 02:13:05,811 --> 02:13:10,565 Can't I have a little excitement to brighten my dull life... 2306 02:13:13,944 --> 02:13:18,073 Oh, oh my back, my back it hurts... 2307 02:13:18,073 --> 02:13:19,783 Close that confounded window, girl! 2308 02:13:19,783 --> 02:13:23,412 I feel the draft, pauline get my Afghan 2309 02:13:23,412 --> 02:13:25,789 and a cushion for my feet. 2310 02:13:27,499 --> 02:13:31,712 Well, you know how people will talk Mrs. Harris if pauline 2311 02:13:31,712 --> 02:13:33,797 doesn't go to the anniversary? 2312 02:13:34,047 --> 02:13:34,798 What? 2313 02:13:35,048 --> 02:13:36,800 Oh, I'm sure in your long lifetime you've learned 2314 02:13:36,800 --> 02:13:39,678 what idle tongues can say. 2315 02:13:39,803 --> 02:13:42,472 Well there's no need to throw my age up in my face, girl. 2316 02:13:42,806 --> 02:13:45,684 Oh, this town is full of tattering toadies 2317 02:13:45,726 --> 02:13:47,769 and don't I know it! 2318 02:13:47,811 --> 02:13:49,771 I'm not stopping her. 2319 02:13:49,813 --> 02:13:52,816 I left it to her own conscience. 2320 02:13:53,275 --> 02:13:56,028 No one will ever believe that excuse. 2321 02:13:56,528 --> 02:13:59,740 Miss Shirley and I can even stay with you, grandmama. 2322 02:13:59,781 --> 02:14:03,076 Why, pauline could probably be there and back in a day! 2323 02:14:03,076 --> 02:14:06,747 There's something behind all this isn't there? 2324 02:14:06,788 --> 02:14:09,708 Why are you all so set on her going? 2325 02:14:09,791 --> 02:14:11,960 Because she's a good kind daughter who needs a day off 2326 02:14:12,002 --> 02:14:13,754 now and then. 2327 02:14:13,795 --> 02:14:15,464 Never mind your wheedling ways. 2328 02:14:15,505 --> 02:14:16,798 Have a peppermint. 2329 02:14:17,799 --> 02:14:22,054 Oh...oh my head. 2330 02:14:22,471 --> 02:14:25,057 Oh I've got such a pain in my head and I'm so tired 2331 02:14:25,057 --> 02:14:26,308 I can't argue anymore. 2332 02:14:26,308 --> 02:14:28,977 I suppose that means I am going to have a stroke. 2333 02:14:30,687 --> 02:14:32,189 Oh. 2334 02:14:36,276 --> 02:14:38,445 Alright you can go. 2335 02:14:39,029 --> 02:14:42,783 But if you catch flu and get sick don't blame me. 2336 02:14:43,784 --> 02:14:46,411 Oh thank you mama, thank you. 2337 02:14:46,411 --> 02:14:47,788 You're so good to me! 2338 02:14:47,829 --> 02:14:50,791 I wanted to go to cousin Louisa's so much. 2339 02:14:50,832 --> 02:14:52,793 Mama...i only have this old black taffeta to wear. 2340 02:14:52,959 --> 02:14:53,627 Do you think... 2341 02:14:53,627 --> 02:14:55,378 Black taffeta is quite good enough 2342 02:14:55,420 --> 02:14:57,798 for Louisa Hilton's wedding. 2343 02:14:58,048 --> 02:15:00,342 She'd go dressed in Scarlet that one if I let her... 2344 02:15:00,383 --> 02:15:03,804 And only waiting till I'm dead to do it. 2345 02:15:04,262 --> 02:15:08,809 As long as I'm alive you will be decent pauline Harris. 2346 02:15:08,850 --> 02:15:09,810 Alright mama. 2347 02:15:10,185 --> 02:15:12,187 I'm just going to be glad inside and 2348 02:15:12,354 --> 02:15:15,190 not even think about what I'm wearing. 2349 02:15:15,273 --> 02:15:16,650 And I'm sure you'll get along 2350 02:15:16,691 --> 02:15:19,194 with miss Shirley splendidly mama! 2351 02:15:22,197 --> 02:15:27,786 I will not take death's hand with any soil of hate or wrath 2352 02:15:27,828 --> 02:15:32,791 or wrong about me, but being friends with this past world, 2353 02:15:33,250 --> 02:15:38,755 pass from it in the general piece of love... 2354 02:15:46,388 --> 02:15:48,098 Well you've all done remarkably well 2355 02:15:48,098 --> 02:15:49,891 and deserve multitudes of praise. 2356 02:15:50,016 --> 02:15:51,601 Now make sure you have your lines down pat 2357 02:15:51,601 --> 02:15:53,520 for next Friday's rehearsal. 2358 02:15:53,562 --> 02:15:55,730 Uh and before you go I have one announcement to make. 2359 02:15:55,814 --> 02:15:58,650 Mrs. Captain Josiah Harris and her granddaughter emmeline, 2360 02:15:58,817 --> 02:16:00,277 would be pleased to invite you ladies 2361 02:16:00,318 --> 02:16:03,613 to a fall picnic tomorrow morning. 2362 02:16:05,699 --> 02:16:07,033 Now if you care to attend we will be meeting 2363 02:16:07,075 --> 02:16:08,910 at maplehurst at 10:00am. 2364 02:16:08,952 --> 02:16:12,539 Oh, please bring a small gift for Mrs. Harris out of politeness 2365 02:16:12,664 --> 02:16:15,000 for her generosity in hosting this event. 2366 02:16:15,250 --> 02:16:17,544 You can go home now girls. 2367 02:16:20,172 --> 02:16:21,298 It's coming. 2368 02:16:21,590 --> 02:16:22,924 It's coming... 2369 02:16:23,633 --> 02:16:26,803 They look wonderful. 2370 02:16:27,220 --> 02:16:30,807 Quite a reaction from those old diaries, Anne. 2371 02:16:30,932 --> 02:16:34,519 Goes to show you how my old students always pull through. 2372 02:16:34,561 --> 02:16:37,480 Don't speak too loudly yet! 2373 02:16:37,522 --> 02:16:39,816 I just received a letter from Gilbert blythe. 2374 02:16:39,900 --> 02:16:42,277 Seems he's finally in medical school. 2375 02:16:42,319 --> 02:16:43,486 I know. 2376 02:16:43,570 --> 02:16:44,821 Well, how's he doing? 2377 02:16:44,863 --> 02:16:47,449 Well, you know Gilbert's so modest, but a - reading between 2378 02:16:47,449 --> 02:16:50,785 the lines I'd say he's at the top of his class. 2379 02:16:50,785 --> 02:16:53,455 He wanted to know how you're doing as well. 2380 02:16:53,496 --> 02:16:57,167 Well, you may tell him I'm keeping out of mischief. 2381 02:17:08,887 --> 02:17:09,804 Come in. 2382 02:17:10,222 --> 02:17:11,389 It's only me, pauline. 2383 02:17:12,224 --> 02:17:14,935 Oh, miss Shirley, how do I look? 2384 02:17:15,018 --> 02:17:16,978 Dreadful. 2385 02:17:17,020 --> 02:17:21,191 You simply cannot go in that old thing. 2386 02:17:22,901 --> 02:17:25,570 I am gonna lend you my best dress. 2387 02:17:25,862 --> 02:17:26,780 Oh my dear, no, no, no... 2388 02:17:26,988 --> 02:17:27,781 I'm on tenterhooks as it is. 2389 02:17:27,989 --> 02:17:29,783 Mama might change her mind. 2390 02:17:29,824 --> 02:17:30,575 Oh, don't be silly. 2391 02:17:30,575 --> 02:17:31,368 Get up. 2392 02:17:31,785 --> 02:17:33,245 Take this black taffeta off... 2393 02:17:33,286 --> 02:17:35,789 You can put this on underneath and can change at the party. 2394 02:17:35,872 --> 02:17:38,416 But to deceive mama I... 2395 02:17:38,541 --> 02:17:40,835 You wouldn't want to bring bad luck to a wedding anniversary 2396 02:17:41,336 --> 02:17:42,837 in this black thing would you? 2397 02:17:43,088 --> 02:17:43,964 No. 2398 02:17:44,297 --> 02:17:45,966 Hmm. 2399 02:17:50,845 --> 02:17:51,805 Oh! Oh! 2400 02:17:51,846 --> 02:17:52,472 Oh, now just a whiff! 2401 02:17:53,848 --> 02:17:56,810 Mama won't approve of this. 2402 02:17:57,102 --> 02:18:01,815 Oh, apple blossom! 2403 02:18:01,982 --> 02:18:04,859 Oh how this reminds me of Adelaide pringle when she... 2404 02:18:05,110 --> 02:18:05,986 Who? 2405 02:18:06,444 --> 02:18:07,779 Morgan's wife. 2406 02:18:07,946 --> 02:18:08,947 The mother of the child. 2407 02:18:09,197 --> 02:18:11,950 She was my first cousin on mama's side. 2408 02:18:16,788 --> 02:18:17,956 I see. 2409 02:18:18,957 --> 02:18:22,419 Pauline why does your brother never visit? 2410 02:18:22,502 --> 02:18:25,839 Oh, Morgan, he's become just like papa. 2411 02:18:25,880 --> 02:18:27,048 Always ordering people about. 2412 02:18:27,090 --> 02:18:28,967 No time for anyone else. 2413 02:18:30,385 --> 02:18:34,597 Morgan used to be so robust and handsome and Adelaide used 2414 02:18:34,597 --> 02:18:37,767 to love music and parties. 2415 02:18:37,892 --> 02:18:39,936 What happened? 2416 02:18:40,020 --> 02:18:45,317 Well, it's not Christian to speak of the dead. 2417 02:18:45,400 --> 02:18:47,986 Well, how did she die then? 2418 02:18:48,028 --> 02:18:51,656 She...ran off shortly after the child was born. 2419 02:18:51,698 --> 02:18:53,950 And died of consumption. 2420 02:18:54,242 --> 02:18:58,538 The pringles all blamed Morgan, including mama. 2421 02:18:58,788 --> 02:19:01,124 But it wasn't Morgan's fault. 2422 02:19:01,416 --> 02:19:03,752 Now mama won't have anything about that reminds her 2423 02:19:03,752 --> 02:19:06,671 of what happened to Adelaide. 2424 02:19:07,172 --> 02:19:09,924 That's wrong pauline. 2425 02:19:10,175 --> 02:19:12,385 What makes the people in this town hold such grudges 2426 02:19:12,385 --> 02:19:14,929 against one another? 2427 02:19:15,180 --> 02:19:17,932 Oh the pringles have always bickered 2428 02:19:18,183 --> 02:19:19,934 a great deal amongst themselves. 2429 02:19:20,185 --> 02:19:22,854 We're very polite to each other in public, though. 2430 02:19:22,937 --> 02:19:25,690 I have never seen such ridiculous behaviour. 2431 02:19:25,774 --> 02:19:29,069 It's absolutely byzantine! 2432 02:19:30,695 --> 02:19:32,781 Well, in any case pauline Harris, 2433 02:19:32,781 --> 02:19:37,035 you are going to have the 'day off' of your life. 2434 02:19:41,539 --> 02:19:43,917 Good morning, Mrs. Harris. 2435 02:19:44,167 --> 02:19:47,045 Walking as if we owned the world are we? 2436 02:19:47,379 --> 02:19:48,922 So I do. 2437 02:19:49,172 --> 02:19:52,050 Come along pauline! 2438 02:19:54,052 --> 02:19:55,929 I...I'm ready to go mama. 2439 02:19:56,179 --> 02:19:57,931 Too much colour girl. 2440 02:19:58,181 --> 02:19:58,932 You look painted. 2441 02:19:59,182 --> 02:20:00,225 Oh no. 2442 02:20:00,266 --> 02:20:02,227 It's just I'm flushed. 2443 02:20:02,268 --> 02:20:07,065 Well you don't smell respectable drenched in scent. 2444 02:20:07,148 --> 02:20:09,442 It's just the tiniest...Little...Bit of it. 2445 02:20:09,526 --> 02:20:13,279 I said drenched and I meant drenched. 2446 02:20:13,405 --> 02:20:16,032 Turn around. 2447 02:20:16,533 --> 02:20:20,036 Is that a rip under that sleeve? 2448 02:20:22,038 --> 02:20:23,123 Uh.... 2449 02:20:23,706 --> 02:20:24,916 No. 2450 02:20:25,166 --> 02:20:29,921 Oh, remember your manners and don't forget to cross your 2451 02:20:30,171 --> 02:20:31,923 ankles decently when you sit down. 2452 02:20:32,173 --> 02:20:33,925 And don't sit in a draft either. 2453 02:20:34,175 --> 02:20:37,011 And don't slide down the banisters. 2454 02:20:37,262 --> 02:20:38,138 Mama! 2455 02:20:38,763 --> 02:20:40,014 Well you did at Nancy pringle's wedding. 2456 02:20:40,265 --> 02:20:42,559 Mama, that was 25 years ago. 2457 02:20:42,600 --> 02:20:44,018 What do you think I am? 2458 02:20:44,269 --> 02:20:45,019 Go on girl. 2459 02:20:45,270 --> 02:20:47,021 Don't stand there jabbering. 2460 02:20:47,272 --> 02:20:49,023 Do you want to miss your train? 2461 02:20:49,274 --> 02:20:51,151 No, mama. 2462 02:20:51,443 --> 02:20:53,570 And if I'm not here when you come back, remember, 2463 02:20:53,778 --> 02:20:54,779 lay me out in my wedding dress. 2464 02:20:55,113 --> 02:20:56,781 And mind my hair is crimped! 2465 02:20:57,031 --> 02:20:59,325 I don't know how you'll manage her miss Shirley. 2466 02:20:59,659 --> 02:21:01,786 She's such a baby. 2467 02:21:07,792 --> 02:21:11,421 I never thought I'd ever get a chance to visit maplehurst. 2468 02:21:17,802 --> 02:21:20,805 Ettie, ettie pringle get away from there, 2469 02:21:20,805 --> 02:21:23,808 that's Mrs. Harris' carriage. 2470 02:21:23,808 --> 02:21:24,809 This is outrageous. 2471 02:21:24,809 --> 02:21:26,811 I haven't been outside... 2472 02:21:26,811 --> 02:21:29,564 If I catch cold girl, I shall hold you responsible. 2473 02:21:29,814 --> 02:21:30,815 Nonsense! 2474 02:21:30,815 --> 02:21:32,358 I want you to enjoy the sunshine 2475 02:21:32,775 --> 02:21:34,736 and all the beautiful Autumn colours. 2476 02:21:34,777 --> 02:21:36,779 We'll have a lovely carriage ride and you can criticize 2477 02:21:36,863 --> 02:21:38,781 everyone we pass by! 2478 02:21:38,865 --> 02:21:40,783 Criticize? 2479 02:21:40,867 --> 02:21:43,786 That's a very strange idea miss Shirley. 2480 02:21:43,870 --> 02:21:45,788 That's not Christian. 2481 02:21:45,872 --> 02:21:47,790 It's simply not Christian. 2482 02:21:49,209 --> 02:21:50,210 What is the meaning of this! 2483 02:21:50,543 --> 02:21:54,088 Miss Shirley, I won't stand for anymore of your monkeyshines! 2484 02:21:54,339 --> 02:21:56,758 You have such handsome carriages and never use them. 2485 02:21:57,008 --> 02:21:58,343 You put them back do you hear! 2486 02:21:58,801 --> 02:22:01,012 They've not been out for seven years! 2487 02:22:01,262 --> 02:22:03,097 All the more reason to bring them out and use them. 2488 02:22:03,348 --> 02:22:05,099 Stop being so selfish. 2489 02:22:05,350 --> 02:22:07,018 Good morning girls. 2490 02:22:07,060 --> 02:22:08,061 You look lovely! 2491 02:22:08,144 --> 02:22:09,354 You wheel me back in! 2492 02:22:09,395 --> 02:22:10,230 Do you hear? 2493 02:22:10,271 --> 02:22:12,106 This is anarchy! 2494 02:22:12,148 --> 02:22:15,693 Who are these rabble-rousers? 2495 02:22:16,778 --> 02:22:19,531 Oh dear saints above I shall swoon. 2496 02:22:19,614 --> 02:22:22,075 I can't stand all this fresh air. 2497 02:22:22,325 --> 02:22:24,702 It's such a pretty day, I thought you could host 2498 02:22:24,744 --> 02:22:26,079 a picnic for the school. 2499 02:22:26,329 --> 02:22:29,082 I don't eat my lunch outside with anyone girl. 2500 02:22:29,123 --> 02:22:31,084 I'm not a raggle-taggle gypsy. 2501 02:22:31,125 --> 02:22:32,585 Take me in! Take me in! 2502 02:22:32,585 --> 02:22:35,547 Hush now, Mrs. Harris; Some of these young girls are pringles. 2503 02:22:35,713 --> 02:22:36,548 Pringles? 2504 02:22:36,631 --> 02:22:37,382 Yes. 2505 02:22:37,423 --> 02:22:40,176 And you don't want them running home and telling tales. 2506 02:22:40,218 --> 02:22:42,178 You'll pay for this. 2507 02:22:42,428 --> 02:22:44,722 If I catch a chill... 2508 02:22:44,889 --> 02:22:46,432 You said you wanted a day off from your 2509 02:22:46,432 --> 02:22:47,725 wheelchair anyway grandmama. 2510 02:22:47,809 --> 02:22:48,935 Be quiet! 2511 02:22:52,814 --> 02:22:55,108 Good morning Mrs. Harris. 2512 02:22:55,149 --> 02:22:57,777 You look awfully chipper. 2513 02:22:57,819 --> 02:22:59,779 Thank you Alec McGuinness. 2514 02:22:59,779 --> 02:23:01,739 Thank you. 2515 02:23:01,781 --> 02:23:03,783 Well, what does it matter if I die anyway? 2516 02:23:04,117 --> 02:23:08,788 I've been living on borrowed time for too long as it is. 2517 02:23:32,604 --> 02:23:35,607 Such friendly people! 2518 02:23:35,607 --> 02:23:37,692 Charming neighbours. 2519 02:23:37,692 --> 02:23:41,946 You know I don't approve of your criticizing people my dear. 2520 02:23:41,988 --> 02:23:46,826 Now...may I ask is that all your own hair. 2521 02:23:46,909 --> 02:23:47,660 Yes. 2522 02:23:47,702 --> 02:23:48,536 Every bit. 2523 02:23:48,661 --> 02:23:50,997 Well pity it's red. 2524 02:23:51,122 --> 02:23:55,251 But I believe red is becoming quite popular again. 2525 02:23:55,501 --> 02:23:57,337 Thank you. 2526 02:24:35,667 --> 02:24:37,001 And another one? 2527 02:24:37,043 --> 02:24:39,337 Oh! How delightful! 2528 02:24:39,420 --> 02:24:41,172 Now, thank you my dear. 2529 02:24:41,214 --> 02:24:45,426 This is my gift to you, emmeline. 2530 02:24:47,804 --> 02:24:49,764 Oh, miss Shirley! 2531 02:24:49,847 --> 02:24:52,225 However did you pay for this? 2532 02:24:52,392 --> 02:24:54,477 I had some lucky savings put aside. 2533 02:24:56,979 --> 02:24:57,480 Oh! 2534 02:24:57,522 --> 02:24:59,816 Thank you a million times over! 2535 02:25:00,441 --> 02:25:02,527 Some day I'll make it up to you! 2536 02:25:06,989 --> 02:25:10,451 Now wasn't that sweet of all these girls to give me gifts? 2537 02:25:11,786 --> 02:25:13,996 Yes, it was. 2538 02:25:14,038 --> 02:25:15,748 Yes, I rather like your laugh miss Shirley. 2539 02:25:15,790 --> 02:25:19,460 That nervous giggle of pauline's it gets on my nerves. 2540 02:25:20,795 --> 02:25:24,132 Well, I hope she has a wonderful time at the party. 2541 02:25:24,173 --> 02:25:26,551 She's probably over eaten and made herself ill. 2542 02:25:26,634 --> 02:25:29,220 Like her father, that girl. 2543 02:25:29,262 --> 02:25:32,432 Course, he never knew when he'd had enough. 2544 02:25:32,807 --> 02:25:37,645 Did I ever show you Josiah's picture, miss Shirley? 2545 02:25:37,687 --> 02:25:40,523 My he was very handsome. 2546 02:25:41,482 --> 02:25:43,985 Full of heroic spirit, I'd say. 2547 02:25:44,068 --> 02:25:48,531 Yes, he was the handsomest man in kingsport. 2548 02:25:49,198 --> 02:25:50,867 And he adored me. 2549 02:25:51,325 --> 02:25:54,078 We consulted each other about absolutely everything. 2550 02:25:54,120 --> 02:25:56,873 Mind you, we didn't always agree - no. 2551 02:25:57,623 --> 02:25:59,417 He had his fits of temper. 2552 02:25:59,584 --> 02:26:02,670 Oh yes, and so did I. 2553 02:26:07,300 --> 02:26:11,929 You know what he did when I bought a day-cap he didn't like? 2554 02:26:12,013 --> 02:26:14,265 I can't imagine... 2555 02:26:14,515 --> 02:26:15,641 He ate it! 2556 02:26:16,601 --> 02:26:18,811 Gave him a terrible stomach pain! 2557 02:26:18,811 --> 02:26:20,062 Yes, served him right. 2558 02:26:20,104 --> 02:26:24,567 He was so irked that I had neglected to consult him! 2559 02:26:31,115 --> 02:26:35,161 How could he go away and leave me alone and crippled like this? 2560 02:26:35,703 --> 02:26:40,333 Dying was the only thing he ever dared do without consulting me. 2561 02:26:43,127 --> 02:26:46,130 Well, it won't be long before we're together again. 2562 02:26:47,089 --> 02:26:54,597 There's no one...No man...Like him...Nowhere...No 2563 02:26:55,139 --> 02:26:58,810 this is a degenerate age, miss Shirley. 2564 02:27:00,770 --> 02:27:03,064 What about your son? 2565 02:27:03,856 --> 02:27:04,857 Morgan. 2566 02:27:05,691 --> 02:27:09,362 Well he managed his money successfully 2567 02:27:09,403 --> 02:27:11,155 if that's any merit. 2568 02:27:11,531 --> 02:27:13,908 His father spoiled him. 2569 02:27:14,116 --> 02:27:17,203 No, he should never have married his cousin. 2570 02:27:18,120 --> 02:27:23,459 It was a blessing that poor Adelaide pringle died dear soul; 2571 02:27:23,793 --> 02:27:27,046 Morgan got what he deserved I suppose. 2572 02:27:28,339 --> 02:27:31,551 That's a very inhuman attitude for a mother, Mrs. Harris. 2573 02:27:32,009 --> 02:27:36,514 Yes, well we're not exactly famous for compassion 2574 02:27:36,764 --> 02:27:40,351 miss Shirley, especially among ourselves you know? 2575 02:27:40,977 --> 02:27:43,729 Anyway they're all waiting for me to die 2576 02:27:43,855 --> 02:27:46,315 so they can get their hands on the money. 2577 02:27:48,025 --> 02:27:49,527 Perhaps you ought to realize 2578 02:27:49,569 --> 02:27:52,446 that emmeline only wants to be cared for. 2579 02:27:52,822 --> 02:27:53,906 Well. 2580 02:27:54,532 --> 02:27:56,826 If you have any compassion left in your soul, 2581 02:27:56,826 --> 02:27:59,036 you might spend it on her. 2582 02:27:59,871 --> 02:28:02,540 Children should be seen and not heard. 2583 02:28:10,089 --> 02:28:15,511 You seem to be very broad-minded in your opinions miss Shirley. 2584 02:28:16,095 --> 02:28:18,055 That's the nicest compliment anyone's 2585 02:28:18,097 --> 02:28:19,765 ever paid me Mrs. Harris. 2586 02:28:30,359 --> 02:28:34,113 Pardon me young man, I was wondering if you would allow my 2587 02:28:34,113 --> 02:28:36,365 girls and me the pleasure of a hayride to town in your wagon. 2588 02:28:36,490 --> 02:28:38,534 It would be so exciting, but I promise you 2589 02:28:38,576 --> 02:28:39,702 they won't be any trouble 2590 02:28:56,093 --> 02:28:59,805 Mama, mama! 2591 02:29:00,723 --> 02:29:02,058 You'll simply have to go. 2592 02:29:02,141 --> 02:29:04,810 Good-bye. 2593 02:29:13,903 --> 02:29:16,322 Mama, mama. 2594 02:29:16,697 --> 02:29:17,490 Mama! 2595 02:29:18,282 --> 02:29:19,784 What's happened? 2596 02:29:19,825 --> 02:29:22,328 Mama are you alright? 2597 02:29:22,828 --> 02:29:24,038 You're wearing a hat. 2598 02:29:24,288 --> 02:29:25,581 Mama I can't remember the last time saw you out. 2599 02:29:25,623 --> 02:29:27,208 Pauline will you calm yourself. 2600 02:29:27,458 --> 02:29:28,709 You sound hysterical. 2601 02:29:29,502 --> 02:29:32,171 You've seen me wear a hat often enough girl. 2602 02:29:32,505 --> 02:29:35,299 Miss Shirley suggested an al fresco lunch 2603 02:29:35,716 --> 02:29:38,219 it was most enjoyable. 2604 02:29:39,929 --> 02:29:42,014 I've been so anxious about you mama. 2605 02:29:43,641 --> 02:29:46,143 I was worried sick the entire party. 2606 02:29:46,185 --> 02:29:48,813 Will you stop fluttering girl! 2607 02:29:48,896 --> 02:29:50,856 You fidget me. 2608 02:29:51,107 --> 02:29:52,858 Pauline, did you have a good time at your wedding party? 2609 02:29:53,109 --> 02:29:55,528 Oh my yes. 2610 02:29:55,778 --> 02:29:58,656 Oh, Louise sent you her bouquet mama. 2611 02:29:58,948 --> 02:30:00,658 The flowers were wonderful. 2612 02:30:00,825 --> 02:30:02,785 The parlour was a bower... 2613 02:30:02,910 --> 02:30:04,495 Like a funeral I suppose... 2614 02:30:04,620 --> 02:30:08,082 And the minister married cousin Louise and Maurice over again. 2615 02:30:08,124 --> 02:30:09,750 Sacrilegious... 2616 02:30:09,792 --> 02:30:11,210 Molly and Emily send their love and... 2617 02:30:11,419 --> 02:30:13,921 Oh and Emily has the most delicious baby. 2618 02:30:14,088 --> 02:30:15,589 You speak as though it was something to eat. 2619 02:30:16,340 --> 02:30:18,843 Babies are common enough. 2620 02:30:19,385 --> 02:30:20,970 Babies are never common. 2621 02:30:21,137 --> 02:30:22,388 Each one is a miracle. 2622 02:30:22,513 --> 02:30:23,681 Well I had two of them. 2623 02:30:24,015 --> 02:30:27,685 I didn't see much that was miraculous about either of them. 2624 02:30:27,977 --> 02:30:30,354 Mama you're so bright and cheerful today. 2625 02:30:30,646 --> 02:30:32,565 However did you two get along miss Shirley? 2626 02:30:32,857 --> 02:30:35,067 I let her have her head and we got on well enough. 2627 02:30:36,986 --> 02:30:38,904 I don't care what the pringles say... 2628 02:30:39,447 --> 02:30:42,074 I think you're quite good looking. 2629 02:30:42,742 --> 02:30:43,993 Thank you. 2630 02:30:48,164 --> 02:30:49,957 Oh good grief! 2631 02:30:51,792 --> 02:30:53,210 Well, well. 2632 02:30:53,335 --> 02:30:55,212 Little Bo peep has lost her sheep and doesn't 2633 02:30:55,254 --> 02:30:56,839 know where to find them. 2634 02:30:59,467 --> 02:31:01,093 Good day miss kerr. 2635 02:31:01,135 --> 02:31:03,846 After this I shall be surprised at nothing. 2636 02:31:04,180 --> 02:31:06,432 Leave them alone and they'll come home bringing 2637 02:31:06,599 --> 02:31:09,477 their tails behind them. 2638 02:31:34,251 --> 02:31:37,379 Get those sheep and that wagon out of here! 2639 02:31:37,630 --> 02:31:39,799 Papa! 2640 02:31:44,136 --> 02:31:49,183 Emmeline you were told to stop wearing those ridiculous 2641 02:31:49,183 --> 02:31:50,392 spectacles outside. 2642 02:31:50,476 --> 02:31:53,229 Your eyesight will never improve if you constantly wear them. 2643 02:31:54,230 --> 02:31:54,855 Yes papa. 2644 02:31:54,897 --> 02:31:57,149 But miss Shirley gave me these new ones and... 2645 02:31:57,191 --> 02:31:58,651 Go inside. 2646 02:31:58,943 --> 02:32:00,694 I mean immediately. 2647 02:32:00,861 --> 02:32:03,197 But... 2648 02:32:04,949 --> 02:32:05,950 Hurry up. 2649 02:32:09,537 --> 02:32:12,540 Young man whose fault is this? 2650 02:32:12,957 --> 02:32:14,959 Is this your wagon? 2651 02:32:22,007 --> 02:32:22,883 Oh, thank you. 2652 02:32:22,883 --> 02:32:24,718 We had a marvellous time. 2653 02:32:25,052 --> 02:32:25,594 Miss Shirley... 2654 02:32:25,636 --> 02:32:26,637 May I have a word with you? 2655 02:32:27,263 --> 02:32:28,013 You run along, miss kerr. 2656 02:32:28,097 --> 02:32:28,973 I'll catch up. 2657 02:32:30,724 --> 02:32:31,725 Yes, sir. 2658 02:32:31,976 --> 02:32:36,397 It seems that each time we meet catastrophe lies in my way. 2659 02:32:36,856 --> 02:32:39,817 Well then perhaps you ought to get out of the way. 2660 02:32:40,568 --> 02:32:42,736 I get annoyed when people treat my instructions lightly, 2661 02:32:42,820 --> 02:32:43,946 miss Shirley. 2662 02:32:44,029 --> 02:32:47,241 I gave explicit order that my daughter was to have no further 2663 02:32:47,241 --> 02:32:49,994 association with kingsport ladies college. 2664 02:32:54,665 --> 02:32:58,961 Would you mind telling me what the devil you're doing here? 2665 02:32:59,003 --> 02:33:01,005 We've been on a country picnic, sir. 2666 02:33:01,630 --> 02:33:02,965 Hosted by your mother. 2667 02:33:03,257 --> 02:33:04,466 My mother? 2668 02:33:04,800 --> 02:33:07,678 She authorized taking out all of those carriages 2669 02:33:07,887 --> 02:33:09,889 and inviting all those girls? 2670 02:33:10,347 --> 02:33:11,473 ...no sir. 2671 02:33:11,473 --> 02:33:12,308 I did. 2672 02:33:13,142 --> 02:33:15,644 And as she had nothing better to think about than herself, 2673 02:33:15,895 --> 02:33:18,898 I felt it was high time someone tried to help her. 2674 02:33:19,148 --> 02:33:20,441 Then you really are as insane as 2675 02:33:20,441 --> 02:33:22,151 all the rumours I've heard about you. 2676 02:33:22,693 --> 02:33:23,819 What have you heard? 2677 02:33:24,153 --> 02:33:25,571 You wouldn't want to know. 2678 02:33:26,030 --> 02:33:27,823 Yes I would! 2679 02:33:28,699 --> 02:33:31,785 The pringles have labeled you the madcap English professor. 2680 02:33:33,037 --> 02:33:36,123 Someone said you had written the most ridiculous story they had 2681 02:33:36,123 --> 02:33:38,959 ever read published by...Uh...Something or other 2682 02:33:39,210 --> 02:33:40,961 reliable baking powder company? 2683 02:33:41,212 --> 02:33:43,422 And that you were the silliest, redheaded, 2684 02:33:43,714 --> 02:33:48,010 mouse of a schoolmistress they'd ever known. 2685 02:33:48,844 --> 02:33:51,347 Thanks to you, I was very nearly fired! 2686 02:33:52,556 --> 02:33:54,642 There's a logical explanation behind everything, 2687 02:33:54,934 --> 02:33:57,728 but you people really are the most narrow-minded, self-centred, 2688 02:33:58,103 --> 02:34:00,105 quarrelsome group I have ever encountered! 2689 02:34:00,940 --> 02:34:02,816 I'd like to poison your entire clan! 2690 02:34:03,108 --> 02:34:05,611 You can't stand to see anyone succeed other than yourselves. 2691 02:34:05,819 --> 02:34:08,656 Oh, I'm sure you're all gloating over who will fly the victory 2692 02:34:08,656 --> 02:34:09,823 banner at the end of this year! 2693 02:34:10,074 --> 02:34:11,867 Well, you have not got the better of me yet! 2694 02:34:11,909 --> 02:34:12,660 Whoa, whoa. 2695 02:34:13,202 --> 02:34:15,496 Come back here, miss. 2696 02:34:15,996 --> 02:34:17,957 You're upset by what the pringles think of you? 2697 02:34:18,040 --> 02:34:20,167 I don't care to discuss it, if you don't mind. 2698 02:34:20,209 --> 02:34:21,961 I'm sorry. 2699 02:34:22,336 --> 02:34:24,296 You're afraid the pringle rumours might reinforce 2700 02:34:24,338 --> 02:34:25,965 my conclusions about you... 2701 02:34:26,674 --> 02:34:28,133 Your conclusions? 2702 02:34:28,384 --> 02:34:29,718 Don't flatter yourself! 2703 02:34:29,969 --> 02:34:32,513 You might be interested in listening to what I actually 2704 02:34:32,554 --> 02:34:34,098 had to say in your defence! 2705 02:34:34,640 --> 02:34:36,392 You ought to look around and see if there's anyone 2706 02:34:36,392 --> 02:34:39,186 you would like to listen to better than yourself! 2707 02:34:45,985 --> 02:34:50,823 I took it upon myself to see that this was delivered to you. 2708 02:34:51,782 --> 02:34:54,451 I'm sure you're far too busy to forward a change of address 2709 02:34:54,785 --> 02:34:56,787 to your daughter. 2710 02:34:57,037 --> 02:34:58,789 If you weren't so self-absorbed, sir, you'd realize there's 2711 02:34:59,039 --> 02:35:00,958 a little girl who desperately loves you. 2712 02:35:02,126 --> 02:35:04,169 You can go. 2713 02:35:13,762 --> 02:35:14,722 Morgan! 2714 02:35:15,014 --> 02:35:15,848 Oh, miss Shirley! 2715 02:35:16,098 --> 02:35:17,016 Wait! 2716 02:35:17,057 --> 02:35:21,812 Morgan, I'll be right back. 2717 02:35:21,895 --> 02:35:24,315 Miss Shirley! 2718 02:35:28,277 --> 02:35:31,697 Oh, miss Shirley, thank goodness you didn't let mama see me 2719 02:35:31,739 --> 02:35:33,741 getting out of that fellow's carriage! 2720 02:35:33,824 --> 02:35:36,118 Pauline, you're positively trembling! 2721 02:35:36,410 --> 02:35:38,329 Oh! It was heavenly! 2722 02:35:38,620 --> 02:35:41,749 I simply have to tell you everything! 2723 02:35:42,458 --> 02:35:45,336 Isaac Kent drove me home! 2724 02:35:45,711 --> 02:35:48,297 He used to be an old Beau of mine. 2725 02:35:48,797 --> 02:35:49,465 Well...no. 2726 02:35:49,715 --> 02:35:50,674 Hardly an old Beau. 2727 02:35:50,799 --> 02:35:53,802 He never had any real intentions, but we used to 2728 02:35:53,886 --> 02:35:55,804 go driving round together. 2729 02:35:55,888 --> 02:36:00,017 He...um...he...paid me a compliment. 2730 02:36:00,351 --> 02:36:01,393 He said..." 2731 02:36:01,894 --> 02:36:07,816 Your hair looks as mush like molasses Taffy as it ever did." 2732 02:36:08,567 --> 02:36:10,986 I hope there wasn't anything improper in him saying that! 2733 02:36:12,154 --> 02:36:13,781 Nothing whatsoever! 2734 02:36:14,198 --> 02:36:14,948 Oh. 2735 02:36:15,199 --> 02:36:17,368 He asked me to go driving again. 2736 02:36:17,785 --> 02:36:23,040 Heaven knows what mama's going to say, but...I don't even care! 2737 02:36:24,375 --> 02:36:28,962 Louisa and I...Walked all around the old house. 2738 02:36:29,546 --> 02:36:31,673 Remembered all of the summers we had spent together as 2739 02:36:31,799 --> 02:36:38,055 girls...some of the lilac bushes that we planted years ago... 2740 02:36:40,224 --> 02:36:45,062 I don't know...I've just never had such a wonderful day! 2741 02:36:45,354 --> 02:36:47,064 Pauline, I'm so pleased! 2742 02:36:47,815 --> 02:36:50,067 How can I ever repay you? 2743 02:36:50,818 --> 02:36:54,029 I just wish you didn't have such a difficult time here. 2744 02:36:54,780 --> 02:37:00,035 Oh, I don't even mind coming home, somehow. 2745 02:37:00,285 --> 02:37:04,039 Morgan's here for a few weeks on business. 2746 02:37:04,289 --> 02:37:07,918 I hope it will be just like old times. 2747 02:37:08,043 --> 02:37:09,044 After all... 2748 02:37:09,294 --> 02:37:11,046 Mama needs me. 2749 02:37:12,256 --> 02:37:16,176 And it's nice being needed, isn't it? 2750 02:37:16,969 --> 02:37:18,178 Oh! 2751 02:37:18,429 --> 02:37:19,847 Thank you, miss Shirley! 2752 02:37:20,472 --> 02:37:21,807 You keep the dress. 2753 02:37:21,932 --> 02:37:24,977 Heaven knows, you might get to wear it again! 2754 02:37:25,644 --> 02:37:28,647 God bless you! 2755 02:37:29,815 --> 02:37:32,109 You've done more than you'll ever know! 2756 02:37:43,787 --> 02:37:47,458 Kingsport ladies college, miss Brooke speaking. 2757 02:37:47,708 --> 02:37:51,795 Why good afternoon, Mrs. Pringle... 2758 02:37:51,879 --> 02:37:53,797 Sore throat? 2759 02:37:53,881 --> 02:37:55,257 Tonsillitis! Good heavens! 2760 02:37:55,507 --> 02:37:59,136 I hope it isn't serious...It's not contagious is it? 2761 02:38:00,512 --> 02:38:02,264 Oh I see... 2762 02:38:03,515 --> 02:38:04,349 No, no... 2763 02:38:04,641 --> 02:38:08,270 But...no we understand completely. 2764 02:38:08,520 --> 02:38:11,273 One must not interfere with a doctor's orders. 2765 02:38:11,523 --> 02:38:14,276 I agree with you Mrs. Pringle. 2766 02:38:14,526 --> 02:38:17,279 I appreciate your giving us sufficient notice... 2767 02:38:17,488 --> 02:38:19,239 Thank you... 2768 02:38:19,490 --> 02:38:21,325 Good-bye. 2769 02:38:26,038 --> 02:38:29,917 Jen pringle will not be performing this evening. 2770 02:38:30,417 --> 02:38:31,502 You can't be serious? 2771 02:38:31,793 --> 02:38:33,212 Not after all this effort. 2772 02:38:33,462 --> 02:38:36,465 We shall simply have to return the tickets and put it off. 2773 02:38:37,216 --> 02:38:38,550 Until when? 2774 02:38:38,800 --> 02:38:40,552 We can't afford to re-book the hall. 2775 02:38:40,761 --> 02:38:41,512 And what about the band? 2776 02:38:41,678 --> 02:38:42,930 I still have to pay for them. 2777 02:38:43,055 --> 02:38:46,391 Well Muriel Stacey I told you it was foolish to get up a play 2778 02:38:46,433 --> 02:38:47,518 this time of year. 2779 02:38:47,643 --> 02:38:48,727 Don't blame me. 2780 02:38:49,144 --> 02:38:53,565 Jen pringle is in no more danger of tonsillitis than I am. 2781 02:38:53,815 --> 02:38:55,567 This is a deliberate device to ruin the play 2782 02:38:55,651 --> 02:38:57,110 and get rid of me. 2783 02:38:57,402 --> 02:38:59,613 That's an awfully sour attitude! 2784 02:38:59,905 --> 02:39:01,073 What do you intend to do? 2785 02:39:01,323 --> 02:39:02,407 Read it yourself? 2786 02:39:02,699 --> 02:39:06,495 That would ruin it...Mary is the entire play! 2787 02:39:07,204 --> 02:39:08,914 We are not postponing anything. 2788 02:39:09,790 --> 02:39:11,041 I'll be back in an hour. 2789 02:39:11,333 --> 02:39:15,337 Carry on as we planned until you hear from me. 2790 02:39:27,015 --> 02:39:28,225 Miss Shirley. 2791 02:39:28,475 --> 02:39:30,936 I would like to speak to captain Harris, please. 2792 02:39:31,186 --> 02:39:33,021 I am sorry he's busy in the study. 2793 02:39:33,730 --> 02:39:35,941 And I regret to say he won't be disturbed... 2794 02:39:36,191 --> 02:39:37,943 I am sorry Annabel; But this is a matter 2795 02:39:38,193 --> 02:39:40,779 that goes beyond regret. 2796 02:39:45,200 --> 02:39:45,993 Come in! 2797 02:39:46,285 --> 02:39:47,953 I'll look at the shipment in Boston. 2798 02:39:48,245 --> 02:39:49,162 On Monday. 2799 02:39:49,413 --> 02:39:50,581 Alright. 2800 02:39:51,582 --> 02:39:52,916 I apologize for interrupting you so rudely sir. 2801 02:39:53,584 --> 02:39:54,751 I'll be brief. 2802 02:39:54,793 --> 02:39:56,753 Because you've withdrawn your financial support from the 2803 02:39:56,795 --> 02:39:58,755 college, we have been attempting to raise the balance of our 2804 02:39:58,797 --> 02:40:00,757 operating costs through the production of a benefit concert 2805 02:40:00,799 --> 02:40:02,759 scheduled for this evening. 2806 02:40:02,801 --> 02:40:04,761 Now our concert is threatened because Jen pringle, our leading 2807 02:40:04,803 --> 02:40:07,639 performer has called in ill at the last minute. 2808 02:40:07,806 --> 02:40:09,766 Emmeline knows the part cold, we've been studying it together. 2809 02:40:09,808 --> 02:40:11,768 This opportunity would mean everything to her. 2810 02:40:11,810 --> 02:40:13,770 I know what you think of me, my methods and the school! 2811 02:40:13,812 --> 02:40:17,816 But, I beg of you to let her perform with us tonight. 2812 02:40:18,817 --> 02:40:20,652 I take it then you job is on the line? 2813 02:40:20,986 --> 02:40:22,738 I intend to see this through, sir. 2814 02:40:24,072 --> 02:40:25,741 You had no business interfering here, miss Shirley. 2815 02:40:26,867 --> 02:40:29,786 Emmeline is far too easily influenced for her own good. 2816 02:40:31,413 --> 02:40:33,749 But under the circumstances I... 2817 02:40:34,791 --> 02:40:36,752 ...i feel I owe you an apology for some of the things I said 2818 02:40:36,793 --> 02:40:39,796 the other day and for the trouble I've obviously caused. 2819 02:40:39,838 --> 02:40:41,840 I meant no harm. 2820 02:40:42,257 --> 02:40:42,799 Please. 2821 02:40:43,050 --> 02:40:45,802 That was my own fault. 2822 02:40:47,638 --> 02:40:50,641 Perhaps I reacted hastily taking emmeline out of school. 2823 02:40:52,726 --> 02:40:55,812 Pringles like to throw their weight around this community. 2824 02:40:56,063 --> 02:40:58,607 You might say I took emmeline's expulsion 2825 02:40:58,815 --> 02:41:02,361 as an attack on myself. 2826 02:41:02,736 --> 02:41:03,570 But I... 2827 02:41:03,612 --> 02:41:05,781 Thought you supported the general consensus. 2828 02:41:06,031 --> 02:41:07,783 Please... 2829 02:41:08,033 --> 02:41:09,785 Don't lump me in with that lot. 2830 02:41:10,035 --> 02:41:13,872 Kingsport is a very insidious town. 2831 02:41:17,000 --> 02:41:22,881 I am grateful to you for your insights, miss Shirley. 2832 02:41:23,173 --> 02:41:24,883 Emmeline may go. 2833 02:41:25,133 --> 02:41:25,884 Emmeline may go? 2834 02:41:26,176 --> 02:41:27,302 Emmeline may go. 2835 02:41:27,636 --> 02:41:27,969 Oh. 2836 02:41:28,261 --> 02:41:31,223 Thank you sir, i'm just dizzy with gratitude. 2837 02:41:36,395 --> 02:41:38,105 Sorry... 2838 02:41:38,480 --> 02:41:42,359 Miss Shirley, miss Shirley. 2839 02:41:42,609 --> 02:41:43,944 You and emmeline hurry along. 2840 02:41:44,194 --> 02:41:46,279 The pringles will be sharpening their knives. 2841 02:41:48,782 --> 02:41:49,783 Thank you. 2842 02:41:54,705 --> 02:41:59,876 Forgive all evil toward me of all men deed or device to hurt me 2843 02:42:00,627 --> 02:42:03,964 yea I would not bear one heart unreconciled with mine 2844 02:42:04,381 --> 02:42:08,802 when mine is cold I will not take death's hand with any soil 2845 02:42:08,927 --> 02:42:12,597 of hate or wrath or wrong about me, but being friends with this 2846 02:42:12,806 --> 02:42:19,354 past world, pass from it in the general peace of love... 2847 02:42:49,384 --> 02:42:50,927 Thank you. 2848 02:42:51,178 --> 02:42:54,639 Thank you all so much for your...Well...Overwhelming 2849 02:42:54,806 --> 02:42:56,808 support for this evening's benefit. 2850 02:42:57,476 --> 02:43:00,729 I would now like to introduce to you, klc's brilliant, 2851 02:43:00,812 --> 02:43:02,230 young English professor. 2852 02:43:02,814 --> 02:43:06,359 An individual who has overseen every last inch of this 2853 02:43:06,610 --> 02:43:10,614 production and whose inspired direction has brought forth 2854 02:43:10,781 --> 02:43:14,201 such magnificent performances from your daughters. 2855 02:43:15,118 --> 02:43:17,454 Miss Anne Shirley! 2856 02:43:27,214 --> 02:43:31,134 Miss Shirley, on behalf of the king's county board of 2857 02:43:31,384 --> 02:43:34,387 education, it gives me very great pleasure 2858 02:43:34,429 --> 02:43:36,431 to present you with this cheque. 2859 02:43:36,515 --> 02:43:41,394 The proceeds of this evening's exciting event made out to the 2860 02:43:41,478 --> 02:43:46,817 kingsport ladies college in the amount of two thousand, 2861 02:43:47,317 --> 02:43:50,320 five hundred dollars! 2862 02:43:55,283 --> 02:43:57,202 Thank you ladies and gentlemen. 2863 02:43:57,786 --> 02:44:01,164 It would be impossible for me to speak without having by my side 2864 02:44:01,706 --> 02:44:04,543 the three other energetic supporters of tonight's event. 2865 02:44:05,001 --> 02:44:09,047 Miss kerr, miss mackay, and especially our beloved 2866 02:44:09,297 --> 02:44:11,800 principal, miss Katherine Brooke; Who have all worked so 2867 02:44:12,008 --> 02:44:14,845 tirelessly on this production. 2868 02:44:35,198 --> 02:44:37,617 It was with great trepidation that I began my year here 2869 02:44:37,784 --> 02:44:39,744 at kingsport ladies college. 2870 02:44:39,786 --> 02:44:43,498 And I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my fellow teachers 2871 02:44:43,790 --> 02:44:46,167 and to the parents of my students who all tried to make 2872 02:44:46,418 --> 02:44:50,630 me feel so at home during my first few weeks in kingsport. 2873 02:44:51,006 --> 02:44:55,176 I have grown to love and respect all of our girls at klc 2874 02:44:55,427 --> 02:44:58,847 and have found many kindred spirits among them. 2875 02:44:59,306 --> 02:45:01,516 If we have opened your hearts this evening and entertained 2876 02:45:01,558 --> 02:45:04,185 you even a little, we have succeeded. 2877 02:45:04,436 --> 02:45:07,272 Thank you all for your very fine support. 2878 02:45:19,618 --> 02:45:22,537 I can't thank you enough for what you've done for my Myra. 2879 02:45:22,787 --> 02:45:23,788 She's gotten along better this term than she has 2880 02:45:23,997 --> 02:45:25,540 in a long time. 2881 02:45:25,790 --> 02:45:26,791 She's a...Joy to teach! 2882 02:45:27,125 --> 02:45:27,876 Thank you! 2883 02:45:28,126 --> 02:45:31,880 I just hope they all realize what a Jewel you are, my dear. 2884 02:45:32,797 --> 02:45:34,633 I know some of the other pringles have been abominable, 2885 02:45:34,799 --> 02:45:36,551 but I don't care what they say. 2886 02:45:36,801 --> 02:45:38,637 You can board with me next term! 2887 02:45:38,803 --> 02:45:39,804 Thank you for the invitation! 2888 02:45:40,096 --> 02:45:42,307 I had a teacher just like you when I was a girl. 2889 02:45:42,557 --> 02:45:44,225 You brought back so many memories! 2890 02:45:44,517 --> 02:45:45,435 Congratulations, my dear! 2891 02:45:45,727 --> 02:45:47,312 Thank you for your kind support. 2892 02:45:47,604 --> 02:45:49,981 Papa...papa...what did you think? 2893 02:45:50,398 --> 02:45:52,651 You were an angel that stole away everyone's heart, 2894 02:45:52,817 --> 02:45:53,568 including mine. 2895 02:45:53,818 --> 02:45:55,445 Come back to earth now for a little while. 2896 02:45:55,779 --> 02:45:57,781 It all feels like a dream. 2897 02:45:58,490 --> 02:46:01,242 Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 2898 02:46:02,786 --> 02:46:03,995 Emmeline. 2899 02:46:05,413 --> 02:46:07,707 Oh, you were wonderful. 2900 02:46:07,791 --> 02:46:08,792 Thank you! 2901 02:46:09,000 --> 02:46:12,087 Looks like you single-handedly routed the entire pringle clan. 2902 02:46:12,420 --> 02:46:16,132 Well, let's just say the winds of persecution have blown over. 2903 02:46:16,424 --> 02:46:17,175 Thank you, sir. 2904 02:46:17,425 --> 02:46:19,052 This has meant a great deal to me. 2905 02:46:19,302 --> 02:46:21,137 I'll never forget it as long as live. 2906 02:46:21,429 --> 02:46:23,139 Nor will I. 2907 02:46:23,431 --> 02:46:24,265 Goodnight emmeline. 2908 02:46:25,433 --> 02:46:26,226 Miss Shirley! 2909 02:46:26,476 --> 02:46:28,228 I'd like you to go on tutoring my daughter so she'll be 2910 02:46:28,478 --> 02:46:30,313 caught up when she returns to the college. 2911 02:46:30,605 --> 02:46:33,316 I'm prepared to make it worth your while. 2912 02:46:33,608 --> 02:46:36,319 Only if you put my wages back into supporting the college. 2913 02:46:36,611 --> 02:46:38,363 You're asking me to renegotiate. 2914 02:46:38,655 --> 02:46:39,531 Yes. 2915 02:46:39,948 --> 02:46:41,366 You have a deal! 2916 02:46:41,950 --> 02:46:43,368 Thank you! 2917 02:46:43,660 --> 02:46:45,328 Good night emmeline. 2918 02:46:45,578 --> 02:46:46,496 Good night. 2919 02:46:50,583 --> 02:46:52,502 Miss Brooke generously left the light on for us! 2920 02:46:52,877 --> 02:46:54,796 She must be in a good mood! 2921 02:46:55,672 --> 02:46:56,673 Settle down. 2922 02:46:56,840 --> 02:46:58,675 I'll be along shortly to tuck you girls in. 2923 02:47:15,358 --> 02:47:19,404 Isn't that ring around the moon enchanting? 2924 02:47:19,821 --> 02:47:24,659 I've seen a good many moons in my time. 2925 02:47:29,289 --> 02:47:30,790 You haven't seen this one. 2926 02:47:32,876 --> 02:47:33,877 Sit down! 2927 02:47:34,169 --> 02:47:37,130 Let's let it just soak into our souls. 2928 02:47:38,339 --> 02:47:40,925 Wasn't it a marvellous evening? 2929 02:47:41,384 --> 02:47:44,763 Don't make a fool out of yourself, please. 2930 02:47:49,809 --> 02:47:53,813 It was thought in ancient times that when a man and a woman sat 2931 02:47:54,230 --> 02:47:57,650 under such a moon, they would be bonded together 2932 02:47:58,026 --> 02:48:01,279 in love for eternity. 2933 02:48:01,488 --> 02:48:11,372 Love...if I died tomorrow, not one living soul would miss me. 2934 02:48:14,375 --> 02:48:18,254 What is it you want, Anne Shirley? 2935 02:48:18,546 --> 02:48:21,382 To be your friend. 2936 02:48:22,884 --> 02:48:24,094 I don't have friends. 2937 02:48:27,013 --> 02:48:29,557 I don't have your notable gift for doing the queen act - always 2938 02:48:29,808 --> 02:48:33,645 saying the right thing to everyone. 2939 02:48:34,062 --> 02:48:36,064 You say you like people to be frank? 2940 02:48:36,523 --> 02:48:39,067 Well I'm going to be frank. 2941 02:48:39,317 --> 02:48:42,028 It's your own fault that no one likes you! 2942 02:48:42,278 --> 02:48:45,031 Katherine Brooke, you are all prickles and stings! 2943 02:48:45,281 --> 02:48:50,120 I know I'm unsocial and people hate me. 2944 02:48:51,454 --> 02:48:54,040 Do you think it doesn't hurt that I'm always neglected 2945 02:48:54,290 --> 02:48:55,834 and overlooked at social functions? 2946 02:48:56,292 --> 02:48:58,711 I'm sorry. 2947 02:48:59,003 --> 02:49:01,131 I've never been able to swallow all the snubs and pokes 2948 02:49:01,422 --> 02:49:03,133 I've received during my life. 2949 02:49:03,424 --> 02:49:06,136 I remember every single one. 2950 02:49:06,427 --> 02:49:11,141 For fifteen years I had to endure relatives who cared as 2951 02:49:11,432 --> 02:49:14,894 little for me as my dead parents! 2952 02:49:15,270 --> 02:49:17,897 I lived in third-rate boarding houses that froze in winter 2953 02:49:18,273 --> 02:49:20,150 and stank in summer! 2954 02:49:21,109 --> 02:49:25,780 I've worn their cast-off clothes! 2955 02:49:26,239 --> 02:49:30,326 Fortunately, I had my grades. 2956 02:49:30,785 --> 02:49:35,081 I made it through college and I paid back every cent! 2957 02:49:35,331 --> 02:49:37,125 Oh yes, I'm independent now. 2958 02:49:37,917 --> 02:49:40,211 The truth is, I hate teaching! 2959 02:49:45,550 --> 02:49:50,555 But there's nothing else I can do! 2960 02:49:52,807 --> 02:49:53,308 Look at you. 2961 02:49:53,558 --> 02:49:55,310 Little messenger of optimism. 2962 02:49:55,810 --> 02:49:57,145 But how long will it last? 2963 02:49:57,729 --> 02:49:59,314 Five? 2964 02:49:59,689 --> 02:50:00,940 Maybe ten years before you wither 2965 02:50:01,191 --> 02:50:06,446 inside of this...Endless monotony. 2966 02:50:06,821 --> 02:50:09,908 Prepare to join the ranks of cold, uninteresting spinsters 2967 02:50:10,283 --> 02:50:14,120 who have chosen a professional career, Anne Shirley! 2968 02:50:29,219 --> 02:50:32,096 "...and in particular, the performance of emmeline Harris 2969 02:50:32,347 --> 02:50:35,099 who was so convincing in the role of the young queen. 2970 02:50:35,350 --> 02:50:37,185 The audience was so unexpectedly moved. 2971 02:50:37,435 --> 02:50:40,063 It is our opinion that this proficient group of young 2972 02:50:40,355 --> 02:50:44,192 actresses must establish a permanent dramatic society. 2973 02:50:44,442 --> 02:50:46,778 The kingsport examiner eagerly awaits their next production." 2974 02:50:51,157 --> 02:50:53,785 And on that note of praise, I hope you all perform 2975 02:50:54,160 --> 02:50:57,247 as triumphantly on your term exam next Friday. 2976 02:50:58,122 --> 02:50:59,791 Class dismissed. 2977 02:51:01,793 --> 02:51:03,544 Emmeline! 2978 02:51:20,353 --> 02:51:26,985 I'd like to apologize...For the...Inconvenience 2979 02:51:27,360 --> 02:51:29,320 that I caused you, miss Shirley. 2980 02:51:29,862 --> 02:51:31,072 We're all glad to see that your health 2981 02:51:31,114 --> 02:51:33,825 has improved...So quickly. 2982 02:51:34,492 --> 02:51:36,202 Yes. 2983 02:51:36,494 --> 02:51:39,372 I think that the doctor was overly concerned. 2984 02:51:40,790 --> 02:51:47,755 I hope I may stay in the dramatic society - if you're 2985 02:51:48,089 --> 02:51:50,341 going to continue. 2986 02:51:50,633 --> 02:51:54,304 Oh. We couldn't do without you. 2987 02:51:54,595 --> 02:51:57,307 Oh, thank you, miss Shirley! 2988 02:51:57,598 --> 02:51:59,809 Oh - my mother wants to know if you'd like to help 2989 02:52:00,059 --> 02:52:01,769 with the annual hospital bazaar. 2990 02:52:01,978 --> 02:52:02,687 If you have the time. 2991 02:52:02,770 --> 02:52:06,816 Tell your mother I'd be flattered! 2992 02:52:17,285 --> 02:52:18,202 Good afternoon girls. 2993 02:52:18,453 --> 02:52:20,038 Oh Anne. 2994 02:52:20,288 --> 02:52:21,205 Hello. 2995 02:52:21,956 --> 02:52:24,042 The board was totally enthralled. 2996 02:52:24,292 --> 02:52:25,001 Better than that... 2997 02:52:25,251 --> 02:52:26,711 They were absolutely floored when they received 2998 02:52:26,836 --> 02:52:28,046 captain Harris' cheque. 2999 02:52:28,296 --> 02:52:31,215 They want to renew your contract for five years! 3000 02:52:31,466 --> 02:52:33,217 Five years! 3001 02:52:33,468 --> 02:52:35,219 I'm not sure I could last that long. 3002 02:52:35,470 --> 02:52:37,305 Well, I think that you ought to write a book about it. 3003 02:52:37,555 --> 02:52:40,308 Oh miss Brooke isn't it wonderful! 3004 02:52:40,558 --> 02:52:41,768 Authors are such kittle kattle. 3005 02:52:41,809 --> 02:52:46,314 I wouldn't trust your description of any of us. 3006 02:52:46,564 --> 02:52:49,317 Here, these came for you. 3007 02:52:49,567 --> 02:52:51,110 Thank you. 3008 02:52:53,363 --> 02:52:57,367 Oh! 3009 02:52:58,284 --> 02:52:59,160 Thank you again. 3010 02:52:59,494 --> 02:53:00,870 I would like to return the favour. 3011 02:53:01,537 --> 02:53:03,289 I'd be pleased to have you escort my family 3012 02:53:03,539 --> 02:53:07,293 for a short visit to Boston when I return in a month. 3013 02:53:07,960 --> 02:53:10,797 Sincerely, Morgan Harris. 3014 02:53:14,550 --> 02:53:18,554 Oh, they're beautiful! 3015 02:53:27,397 --> 02:53:31,401 Pauline Harris you don't know if you're coming or going girl. 3016 02:53:32,402 --> 02:53:35,363 Move that hatbox. 3017 02:53:36,364 --> 02:53:40,368 Not up there girl you'll brain me. 3018 02:53:40,618 --> 02:53:41,369 It's not safe up there either. 3019 02:53:41,619 --> 02:53:42,954 Put it back girl, put it back! 3020 02:53:43,454 --> 02:53:48,376 Lower the blind, it needs to be just about one inch lower. 3021 02:53:48,626 --> 02:53:51,379 Oh pauline...Pauline. 3022 02:53:51,629 --> 02:53:55,383 Now you've done it! 3023 02:53:55,633 --> 02:53:57,802 All that light makes my headache worse. 3024 02:53:57,969 --> 02:53:58,803 I'm sorry mama. 3025 02:54:02,473 --> 02:54:04,058 Well, you've got your colour back Mrs. Harris; 3026 02:54:04,475 --> 02:54:06,853 you must be feeling better. 3027 02:54:07,478 --> 02:54:12,400 I am completely worn out with all the worry 3028 02:54:12,650 --> 02:54:13,901 and motion sickness. 3029 02:54:14,193 --> 02:54:15,445 My stomach is dropping out of me. 3030 02:54:15,695 --> 02:54:17,572 Why I ever listened to you and came on this trip 3031 02:54:17,780 --> 02:54:18,948 in the first place... 3032 02:54:19,365 --> 02:54:21,367 Now, now...We're almost there. 3033 02:54:21,617 --> 02:54:23,369 Perhaps you'd like some lunch pauline. 3034 02:54:23,619 --> 02:54:25,371 We are not hungry. 3035 02:54:25,621 --> 02:54:28,374 Can they make a decent cup of tea on this contraption? 3036 02:54:28,624 --> 02:54:31,377 I'd rather drink mud than the tea that some people make. 3037 02:54:31,627 --> 02:54:32,462 Yes Mrs. Harris. 3038 02:54:32,795 --> 02:54:34,088 I'll see what I can procure. 3039 02:54:34,422 --> 02:54:37,300 ...and see that they wash the cup out properly. 3040 02:54:37,717 --> 02:54:41,179 I don't mean to be a trouble to anyone...But the way I'm feeling 3041 02:54:41,929 --> 02:54:44,474 I don't think I'll be here much longer. 3042 02:54:44,724 --> 02:54:47,935 Then perhaps you'll appreciate me. 3043 02:54:56,235 --> 02:54:57,778 Poor aunt pauline. 3044 02:54:58,279 --> 02:55:01,449 Oh well, grandmama will sleep for days once we get there. 3045 02:55:01,699 --> 02:55:03,451 I can hardly wait to see papa's new house. 3046 02:55:03,701 --> 02:55:06,454 I've only ever heard of how wonderful it is. 3047 02:55:06,704 --> 02:55:10,374 I've a feeling we're all here on approval. 3048 02:55:10,666 --> 02:55:12,460 Papa thinks very highly of you, miss Shirley. 3049 02:55:12,710 --> 02:55:14,795 He said so. 3050 02:55:19,550 --> 02:55:22,470 Hello, how is mother? 3051 02:55:22,720 --> 02:55:25,473 She allowed us to order her a cup of tea. 3052 02:55:25,723 --> 02:55:27,475 However, she is throwing out complaints 3053 02:55:27,725 --> 02:55:29,477 at the speed of this train. 3054 02:55:29,727 --> 02:55:31,354 If we like your new house in Boston papa, 3055 02:55:31,604 --> 02:55:33,189 can miss Shirley and I stay with you? 3056 02:55:33,564 --> 02:55:34,482 Hmm, I don't know if Boston's large enough 3057 02:55:34,732 --> 02:55:37,193 for two sophisticated ladies. 3058 02:55:38,778 --> 02:55:41,364 Going from avonlea to kingsport was an adventure captain. 3059 02:55:41,739 --> 02:55:43,783 I assure you this will be an epoch in my life. 3060 02:55:43,783 --> 02:55:46,786 Well, I'm sure you and Boston will make quite an impression 3061 02:55:46,953 --> 02:55:48,621 on each other. 3062 02:55:48,788 --> 02:55:51,791 If I can remember not to look as backward as I feel. 3063 02:56:08,015 --> 02:56:10,935 All this moving about... 3064 02:56:11,185 --> 02:56:14,939 My neuritis is agony and nobody cares what I suffer. 3065 02:56:15,189 --> 02:56:16,399 Mother... 3066 02:56:16,649 --> 02:56:18,150 So this is what you've been wasting my money 3067 02:56:18,401 --> 02:56:19,819 on Morgan Harris. 3068 02:56:55,730 --> 02:56:58,733 I didn't invite you all the way to Boston to carry on like this! 3069 02:56:58,816 --> 02:57:00,651 It isn't fair, Morgan. 3070 02:57:00,818 --> 02:57:01,652 It simply isn't fair! 3071 02:57:01,819 --> 02:57:04,614 The child had got to come back and live with you! 3072 02:57:04,780 --> 02:57:06,574 I can't afford the expenses and I simply 3073 02:57:06,782 --> 02:57:08,618 can't stand the trouble! 3074 02:57:08,784 --> 02:57:10,620 Pauline has got quite enough to do - oh, I don't mind mama - 3075 02:57:10,786 --> 02:57:12,622 please don't contradict me! 3076 02:57:12,788 --> 02:57:14,624 Don't be so demanding! 3077 02:57:14,790 --> 02:57:15,791 She's back in school, besides I thought 3078 02:57:16,042 --> 02:57:18,461 you enjoyed having her with you! 3079 02:57:18,711 --> 02:57:22,632 I am 79 years of age, my boy, and I can't be bothered 3080 02:57:22,798 --> 02:57:24,634 with the child. 3081 02:57:24,800 --> 02:57:27,511 You've got this enormous house! 3082 02:57:27,762 --> 02:57:29,805 It all comes out of your father's estate, doesn't it? 3083 02:57:30,056 --> 02:57:30,806 Huh? 3084 02:57:30,973 --> 02:57:33,809 I have every right to be 'demanding'! 3085 02:57:34,226 --> 02:57:37,063 Why don't you get married again? 3086 02:57:37,313 --> 02:57:39,023 I haven't the temperament for it. 3087 02:57:39,315 --> 02:57:41,067 I suppose no one would take you! 3088 02:57:41,317 --> 02:57:44,153 Mind your own business, mother! 3089 02:57:45,863 --> 02:57:49,075 Of course, I realize my opinions don't matter any longer. 3090 02:57:50,076 --> 02:57:51,786 I might just as well be dead. 3091 02:57:52,078 --> 02:57:53,829 Then you can have the rest of the money! 3092 02:57:54,080 --> 02:57:56,999 Please don't say that, mama - I will say it! 3093 02:57:57,416 --> 02:58:00,795 You're two ungrateful children! 3094 02:58:01,087 --> 02:58:03,839 How many times have I sat up at night, nursing you? 3095 02:58:04,090 --> 02:58:04,840 When you were little? 3096 02:58:05,091 --> 02:58:07,885 Sometimes I thought you'd never live to see the dawn! 3097 02:58:08,761 --> 02:58:11,472 A mother's sacrifices are soon forgotten. 3098 02:58:11,722 --> 02:58:12,431 Mama. 3099 02:58:12,723 --> 02:58:13,808 Please come to bed. 3100 02:58:13,808 --> 02:58:14,809 It's just the strain of being - 3101 02:58:14,809 --> 02:58:17,895 saints above, pauline! Will you keep out of this? 3102 02:58:18,813 --> 02:58:20,272 Now listen to me, Morgan. 3103 02:58:20,523 --> 02:58:25,528 I am not going to bed until you give me a decisive answer. 3104 02:58:25,778 --> 02:58:31,117 Face up to your responsibilities and behave like a man! 3105 02:58:31,367 --> 02:58:33,202 All right! 3106 02:58:37,790 --> 02:58:41,794 I shall look into making the arrangements as soon as I can. 3107 02:58:41,794 --> 02:58:42,795 Well. 3108 02:58:42,795 --> 02:58:46,006 That's better. 3109 02:58:46,424 --> 02:58:48,801 Goodnight? 3110 02:59:01,230 --> 02:59:02,815 Goodnight, Morgan. 3111 02:59:04,942 --> 02:59:08,779 You can't rely on that boy to stay in the same line for two 3112 02:59:08,779 --> 02:59:09,780 minutes together. 3113 02:59:09,780 --> 02:59:13,993 He'll toss that child back in my lap as sure as sure can be. 3114 02:59:14,785 --> 02:59:18,789 And what do you think of my son's lack of responsibility? 3115 02:59:19,790 --> 02:59:20,791 I quite agree! 3116 02:59:20,791 --> 02:59:22,793 Goodnight, miss Shirley! 3117 02:59:31,469 --> 02:59:33,471 Please...don't get up. 3118 02:59:34,472 --> 02:59:37,850 I just wanted to say what a lovely evening this has been. 3119 02:59:38,350 --> 02:59:40,478 And thank you for giving me such a wonderful opportunity. 3120 02:59:41,479 --> 02:59:43,481 I apologize for mother's behaviour. 3121 02:59:43,773 --> 02:59:46,484 In her condition, sarcasm is her one relief. 3122 02:59:47,485 --> 02:59:48,903 It's her pringle nature... 3123 02:59:49,236 --> 02:59:50,237 I suppose. 3124 02:59:51,947 --> 02:59:53,365 I'm surprised you've put up with all this kingsport nonsense 3125 02:59:53,616 --> 02:59:55,451 as well as you have. 3126 02:59:57,453 --> 03:00:00,372 Well, it has been a challenge... 3127 03:00:00,623 --> 03:00:02,458 As well as a very good experience. 3128 03:00:03,459 --> 03:00:05,795 Oh, I desperately miss my green gables though. 3129 03:00:07,463 --> 03:00:09,632 Watching the home lights flicker across the pond 3130 03:00:10,007 --> 03:00:14,845 at night...Marilla waiting for me on the verandah. 3131 03:00:18,474 --> 03:00:20,476 Probably sounds very foolish to you. 3132 03:00:21,477 --> 03:00:24,396 Can't escape your wholesome island upbringing... 3133 03:00:25,815 --> 03:00:29,819 It must feel very empty living in this vast house all alone. 3134 03:00:31,821 --> 03:00:33,864 Well, it's an investment really. 3135 03:00:34,949 --> 03:00:37,660 I'm away so frequently. 3136 03:00:38,702 --> 03:00:40,830 What is it that keeps you away from kingsport? 3137 03:00:41,080 --> 03:00:43,833 Keeping occupied with the all-consuming problems 3138 03:00:44,083 --> 03:00:45,835 of my business. 3139 03:00:46,085 --> 03:00:47,837 Running away...? 3140 03:00:49,463 --> 03:00:56,595 No. Perhaps holding out for a reason to return. 3141 03:00:56,804 --> 03:00:58,848 Well, I hope you've found one. 3142 03:01:01,809 --> 03:01:04,478 I'm very grateful to you for all your hospitality. 3143 03:01:04,770 --> 03:01:07,523 Well, I'm very grateful to you for the pleasure 3144 03:01:07,773 --> 03:01:09,650 of such high spirits. 3145 03:01:11,694 --> 03:01:12,570 Goodnight. 3146 03:01:12,778 --> 03:01:14,655 Goodnight Morgan Harris. 3147 03:01:15,906 --> 03:01:22,788 Anne Shirley, I hope we shall see you often 3148 03:01:23,038 --> 03:01:24,456 when I return to kingsport. 3149 03:01:32,923 --> 03:01:34,091 Let's try a new one, shall we? 3150 03:01:34,508 --> 03:01:35,926 Yes! 3151 03:01:41,473 --> 03:01:42,933 Do you think this makes me look older, papa? 3152 03:01:43,392 --> 03:01:44,226 Oh, yes, emmeline. 3153 03:01:44,768 --> 03:01:45,811 We can't make up our minds which of these hats 3154 03:01:46,103 --> 03:01:47,938 look more sophisticated! 3155 03:01:48,188 --> 03:01:49,690 Neither can I. 3156 03:01:49,857 --> 03:01:50,816 We'll take all of them. 3157 03:01:51,609 --> 03:01:52,276 Papa! 3158 03:01:52,318 --> 03:01:53,527 We can manage them. 3159 03:01:53,944 --> 03:01:54,862 Here she is. 3160 03:01:55,154 --> 03:01:56,906 The great lady of the west indies. 3161 03:01:57,156 --> 03:01:58,908 She's magnificent! 3162 03:01:59,158 --> 03:02:00,826 What does "mistral" mean, papa? 3163 03:02:01,118 --> 03:02:02,912 It means a "rough, cold wind". 3164 03:02:03,162 --> 03:02:04,121 Oh no, captain. 3165 03:02:04,538 --> 03:02:06,916 It should be christened after a delicious, perfumed wind. 3166 03:02:07,166 --> 03:02:08,918 Like a Zephyr. 3167 03:02:09,168 --> 03:02:12,463 Then I shall name the next one the Zephyr in your honour! 3168 03:02:34,818 --> 03:02:39,782 ...and the excursion to Boston all seems like a dream somehow. 3169 03:02:40,783 --> 03:02:44,203 Emmeline, who has had such a forsaken life up to now 3170 03:02:44,411 --> 03:02:48,791 has blossomed and I feel captain Harris now recognizes 3171 03:02:49,333 --> 03:02:52,044 the treasure he didn't know he possessed. 3172 03:02:52,503 --> 03:02:57,716 I am a little weary of living out of a trunk though 3173 03:02:57,925 --> 03:03:02,262 and I long to feel the summer loveliness of home. 3174 03:03:02,513 --> 03:03:04,264 I miss you both so very much. 3175 03:03:04,515 --> 03:03:05,724 With all my heart. 3176 03:03:05,808 --> 03:03:07,810 Anne. 3177 03:03:08,268 --> 03:03:11,814 She's plain worn out if you ask me marilla. 3178 03:03:11,855 --> 03:03:14,817 I'm not surprised, the way girls roam the earth now 3179 03:03:15,025 --> 03:03:16,151 is something terrible. 3180 03:03:16,819 --> 03:03:20,739 It reminds me of Satan in the book of job going to and fro 3181 03:03:20,781 --> 03:03:21,782 and walking up and down. 3182 03:03:22,116 --> 03:03:25,452 I don't think the lord ever intended it... 3183 03:03:25,703 --> 03:03:29,456 What is to be will be Rachel. 3184 03:03:29,790 --> 03:03:32,042 And what isn't to be sometimes happens. 3185 03:03:32,292 --> 03:03:35,045 Riches are all very well marilla. 3186 03:03:35,295 --> 03:03:39,133 But if Anne prefers the handsome unknown to avonlea. 3187 03:03:39,383 --> 03:03:41,135 Well, there's nothing more to be said. 3188 03:03:41,385 --> 03:03:44,263 It's in the hands of Providence. 3189 03:03:47,808 --> 03:03:49,768 I enjoyed your company in Boston. 3190 03:03:49,810 --> 03:03:52,396 I hope the term is continuing well in kingsport and emmeline 3191 03:03:52,730 --> 03:03:54,773 is caught up now in her studies. 3192 03:03:54,815 --> 03:03:55,774 Thank you again. 3193 03:03:55,816 --> 03:03:58,819 Sincerely, Morgan Harris. 3194 03:04:16,754 --> 03:04:18,672 Anne Shirley. 3195 03:04:18,797 --> 03:04:20,632 What in heck are you doing here? 3196 03:04:21,133 --> 03:04:23,761 Gil? 3197 03:04:24,178 --> 03:04:26,638 You're the very last person I'd ever expected to meet out 3198 03:04:26,847 --> 03:04:28,807 here on a day like this! 3199 03:04:31,769 --> 03:04:32,770 C'mon. 3200 03:04:33,771 --> 03:04:35,689 The royal academy of physicians is convening here this weekend 3201 03:04:35,814 --> 03:04:36,648 and I'm here as a delegate. 3202 03:04:36,815 --> 03:04:38,233 You must be proud of yourself. 3203 03:04:38,484 --> 03:04:40,486 Not as proud as I was of you when I read that clipping 3204 03:04:40,736 --> 03:04:42,780 miss Stacey sent me about the success of your play. 3205 03:04:43,781 --> 03:04:45,532 That's sweet of you Gil. 3206 03:04:45,783 --> 03:04:47,743 It's so good to see you. 3207 03:04:47,785 --> 03:04:49,787 Well I was actually hoping we'd run into each other. 3208 03:04:50,788 --> 03:04:52,081 I wasn't sure whether you'd be happy to see me or not, so I.. 3209 03:04:52,790 --> 03:04:53,749 Happy? 3210 03:04:53,791 --> 03:04:55,959 I can't begin to express my happiness! 3211 03:04:56,376 --> 03:04:57,753 Let me look at you. 3212 03:04:57,878 --> 03:04:58,420 Oh yes. 3213 03:04:58,462 --> 03:05:00,589 Do I look like a young medical student now? 3214 03:05:00,798 --> 03:05:01,757 Not a bit. 3215 03:05:01,799 --> 03:05:02,758 You can't fool me. 3216 03:05:03,592 --> 03:05:05,719 You are still the same incorrigible Gil. 3217 03:05:06,303 --> 03:05:07,721 Tell me all the avonlea news. 3218 03:05:07,805 --> 03:05:08,722 Have you been back? 3219 03:05:08,806 --> 03:05:10,766 Uh, no, I've been spending most of my time 3220 03:05:10,808 --> 03:05:12,726 with the Stuarts in halifax. 3221 03:05:12,810 --> 03:05:14,728 Dr. Stuart's a very prominent surgeon. 3222 03:05:14,812 --> 03:05:19,733 It's he who arranged for me to attend as his delegate. 3223 03:05:19,817 --> 03:05:20,484 You see... 3224 03:05:20,484 --> 03:05:22,569 Christine and I are engaged. 3225 03:05:23,779 --> 03:05:26,198 It's set for next summer. 3226 03:05:27,241 --> 03:05:29,785 I'm so happy for you Gil. 3227 03:05:30,452 --> 03:05:34,540 I guess that's why I wanted to see you so much; To apologize 3228 03:05:34,665 --> 03:05:36,667 for being such a fool last summer. 3229 03:05:37,751 --> 03:05:41,505 You know, I think I understand now what you meant. 3230 03:05:41,755 --> 03:05:46,593 I meant what I said too and I won't ever forget you. 3231 03:05:49,138 --> 03:05:51,807 You turned out as I always imagined you would. 3232 03:05:52,808 --> 03:05:55,811 Doesn't it seem like yesterday we were off to queen's 3233 03:05:56,186 --> 03:05:59,148 and vying for those scholarships. 3234 03:05:59,565 --> 03:06:01,817 I suppose you've kept up your writing. 3235 03:06:01,859 --> 03:06:03,569 Not really... 3236 03:06:03,819 --> 03:06:06,780 I've been busy and well publishers aren't interested 3237 03:06:06,822 --> 03:06:09,366 in those kinds of stories. 3238 03:06:09,616 --> 03:06:11,618 Well I wouldn't give up altogether. 3239 03:06:11,994 --> 03:06:13,328 You know I always thought you should write a book 3240 03:06:13,328 --> 03:06:14,872 about avonlea. 3241 03:06:15,664 --> 03:06:17,791 Change the name, of course, or Rachel lynde would think 3242 03:06:17,833 --> 03:06:19,793 she was the heroine. 3243 03:06:20,085 --> 03:06:23,797 Avonlea is the dearest place in the world, I don't think 3244 03:06:23,839 --> 03:06:26,800 it's an interesting enough setting for a story. 3245 03:06:27,551 --> 03:06:29,720 Well, I intend to take Christine back to the island with me 3246 03:06:29,845 --> 03:06:31,805 and set up my practice there. 3247 03:06:31,847 --> 03:06:33,807 Dr. Stuart has a lot of pull in halifax and would like us 3248 03:06:33,849 --> 03:06:38,520 to live there, but I don't want any handouts. 3249 03:06:38,937 --> 03:06:42,399 Besides, any other place just wouldn't seem like home to me. 3250 03:06:42,608 --> 03:06:45,068 No, of course. 3251 03:06:47,779 --> 03:06:49,781 The board of governors at the college just offered 3252 03:06:49,907 --> 03:06:52,075 me a five-year contract... 3253 03:06:52,409 --> 03:06:54,494 That's wonderful. 3254 03:06:54,745 --> 03:06:56,205 You've certainly won your way into the hearts 3255 03:06:56,205 --> 03:06:58,248 of this affluent old town. 3256 03:06:59,625 --> 03:07:01,418 You won't be lonely. 3257 03:07:01,668 --> 03:07:03,795 I'll survive. 3258 03:07:04,296 --> 03:07:06,423 Well I ought to go. 3259 03:07:06,673 --> 03:07:07,674 Train leaves at 5:30. 3260 03:07:07,841 --> 03:07:09,426 Aw, no. Really? 3261 03:07:09,676 --> 03:07:15,432 Oh...uh I was going to uh mail this but.... 3262 03:07:15,933 --> 03:07:17,809 A note just isn't the same. 3263 03:07:17,935 --> 03:07:18,810 Thanks Gil. 3264 03:07:20,562 --> 03:07:22,439 Good-bye Anne. 3265 03:07:22,689 --> 03:07:23,565 Good-bye Gil. 3266 03:07:25,192 --> 03:07:27,194 Don't forget me. 3267 03:07:56,265 --> 03:07:57,266 Gil! 3268 03:07:59,893 --> 03:08:01,436 Gil! 3269 03:08:04,564 --> 03:08:09,319 Thank you, good-bye. 3270 03:08:10,028 --> 03:08:11,989 Good-bye Anne. 3271 03:09:22,809 --> 03:09:26,480 Miss Shirley would you help us arrange all these garlands 3272 03:09:26,730 --> 03:09:27,439 and bunting? 3273 03:09:27,731 --> 03:09:29,441 This is a hopeless mess! 3274 03:09:29,733 --> 03:09:30,817 What's the matter Mrs. Pringle? 3275 03:09:31,193 --> 03:09:32,444 Not one of these nitwits has as much artistic ability 3276 03:09:32,736 --> 03:09:35,864 you have in your baby finger. 3277 03:09:36,073 --> 03:09:41,078 Ladies I'm putting miss Shirley in charge here. 3278 03:09:41,703 --> 03:09:44,539 Let me see. 3279 03:09:45,624 --> 03:09:47,876 I suggest you gather it up in a rosette like this 3280 03:09:48,126 --> 03:09:50,003 and then we'll hang them with the festoons afterwards. 3281 03:09:50,295 --> 03:09:53,173 We were all so impressed with your production 3282 03:09:53,173 --> 03:09:54,007 at the college miss Shirley. 3283 03:09:54,508 --> 03:09:55,342 Thank you. 3284 03:09:55,342 --> 03:09:58,220 And to think how you transformed Morgan Harris' little girl. 3285 03:09:59,304 --> 03:10:01,598 He's hardly had anything to do with the poor child 3286 03:10:01,807 --> 03:10:03,016 since she was born. 3287 03:10:03,308 --> 03:10:05,769 Such a tragedy when his Adelaide died... 3288 03:10:06,144 --> 03:10:07,354 She was a rare beauty. 3289 03:10:07,771 --> 03:10:10,399 Old Mrs. Harris and mother pringle are first cousins. 3290 03:10:10,816 --> 03:10:12,943 And I know how the harrises have cut themselves off 3291 03:10:13,193 --> 03:10:14,903 from everybody. 3292 03:10:14,986 --> 03:10:17,739 It was Morgan's fault though, she ran away and left him. 3293 03:10:18,281 --> 03:10:19,991 Terrible reputation with the ladies. 3294 03:10:20,784 --> 03:10:23,453 They say Adelaide really died of a broken heart. 3295 03:10:23,787 --> 03:10:26,039 I'm sure that he's felt so guilty all these years 3296 03:10:26,289 --> 03:10:28,708 that he can't stand the sight of the child. 3297 03:10:28,875 --> 03:10:32,129 More than likely it's the old lady he can't stand. 3298 03:10:34,464 --> 03:10:40,095 Well I know for a fact that he has been seeing elvira Evans... 3299 03:10:40,387 --> 03:10:43,098 Standard oil fortune from Boston. 3300 03:10:43,390 --> 03:10:49,104 She has been staying for the last two weeks at maplehurst 3301 03:10:49,396 --> 03:10:51,314 or so my sister-in-law tells me. 3302 03:10:51,648 --> 03:10:55,819 You've gotten to know cousin Morgan haven't you miss Shirley? 3303 03:10:56,111 --> 03:10:57,112 Yes. 3304 03:10:57,404 --> 03:10:59,114 We've met on several outings. 3305 03:10:59,364 --> 03:11:01,658 He's very charming. 3306 03:11:08,582 --> 03:11:10,709 We're going to give miss Evans a tour of the old town this 3307 03:11:10,792 --> 03:11:12,252 afternoon, emmeline. 3308 03:11:46,077 --> 03:11:48,997 "Dear miss Shirley, please accept our congratulations 3309 03:11:49,247 --> 03:11:52,918 on your book entitled 'avonlea vignettes'. 3310 03:11:53,126 --> 03:11:56,004 Enclosed is our cheque for two hundred and fifty dollars 3311 03:11:56,254 --> 03:12:00,091 as advanced against our royalties -" 3312 03:12:02,719 --> 03:12:03,970 Anne! 3313 03:12:04,262 --> 03:12:05,972 Anne? 3314 03:12:06,264 --> 03:12:07,682 Oh, hello. 3315 03:12:07,682 --> 03:12:09,976 Anne, I was hoping I'd run in to you. 3316 03:12:10,268 --> 03:12:12,521 We've missed having you back at maplehurst. 3317 03:12:12,938 --> 03:12:15,023 I can imagine it must be very difficult for you to get away 3318 03:12:15,273 --> 03:12:16,983 from your important guest. 3319 03:12:17,275 --> 03:12:18,944 Yes, it is. 3320 03:12:19,236 --> 03:12:19,486 But please - 3321 03:12:19,778 --> 03:12:21,988 don't apologize. I understand. 3322 03:12:22,239 --> 03:12:23,949 Good day, sir. 3323 03:12:24,241 --> 03:12:25,951 May I offer you a ride back to the college? 3324 03:12:26,535 --> 03:12:27,494 No, thank you. 3325 03:12:36,253 --> 03:12:38,797 What's nagging you, miss Shirley? 3326 03:12:40,173 --> 03:12:42,551 You're behaving rather like a spinsterly old school marm, 3327 03:12:42,717 --> 03:12:44,052 don't you think? 3328 03:12:44,344 --> 03:12:46,096 Perhaps that's because I am one! 3329 03:12:46,346 --> 03:12:47,097 I say that with admiration! 3330 03:12:47,347 --> 03:12:48,807 That was a compliment. 3331 03:12:49,182 --> 03:12:50,684 I am a great proponent of independent thinking. 3332 03:12:50,809 --> 03:12:53,395 Moreover, I have always held that early marriages are a sure 3333 03:12:53,478 --> 03:12:56,815 indication of second rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. 3334 03:12:58,775 --> 03:13:00,068 Wouldn't you agree? 3335 03:13:00,360 --> 03:13:03,029 Well you can be sure I am of the first rate kind, Morgan Harris, 3336 03:13:03,321 --> 03:13:05,824 and I certainly have far greater ambitions than marriage. 3337 03:13:05,865 --> 03:13:08,410 All that you are insinuating is nagging me. 3338 03:13:08,785 --> 03:13:11,037 I'm about to have a short work of fiction published! 3339 03:13:11,329 --> 03:13:13,498 I am afraid it has me completely preoccupied! 3340 03:13:13,790 --> 03:13:16,167 Well, let me offer my congratulations! 3341 03:13:16,793 --> 03:13:17,586 Good day! 3342 03:13:17,919 --> 03:13:21,798 Anne...anne! 3343 03:13:21,798 --> 03:13:23,800 I am sorry. 3344 03:13:23,800 --> 03:13:26,803 I ought not to have such a back handed invitation. 3345 03:13:27,304 --> 03:13:28,805 I've been meaning to ask mother to invite you back 3346 03:13:28,805 --> 03:13:30,807 to maplehurst. 3347 03:13:30,807 --> 03:13:32,809 How gracious of you! 3348 03:13:32,809 --> 03:13:34,811 But my schedule is so jam packed, I am sure I won't be 3349 03:13:34,811 --> 03:13:36,813 able to squeeze it in. 3350 03:13:36,896 --> 03:13:37,814 I take it you'll attend 3351 03:13:37,897 --> 03:13:39,816 the hospital benefit tomorrow evening? 3352 03:13:40,442 --> 03:13:41,818 Yes, i'm... 3353 03:13:41,901 --> 03:13:43,778 Working as a volunteer. 3354 03:13:43,862 --> 03:13:45,780 I shall look forward to seeing you there. 3355 03:13:46,197 --> 03:13:47,782 Would you do me the honour, miss Shirley, 3356 03:13:48,033 --> 03:13:52,412 of reserving me waltz on your card. 3357 03:13:53,163 --> 03:13:54,039 Of course. 3358 03:13:54,789 --> 03:13:58,752 I'd be pleased to, Morgan Harris. 3359 03:13:58,835 --> 03:13:59,794 Thank you. 3360 03:14:00,253 --> 03:14:03,506 If I have a waltz space free! 3361 03:14:10,263 --> 03:14:14,059 Well, what do you think? 3362 03:14:14,309 --> 03:14:17,687 You look like a Gibson magazine cover! 3363 03:14:19,105 --> 03:14:22,150 Perhaps some romantic artist will fall for you 3364 03:14:22,442 --> 03:14:24,277 and ask to paint your picture... 3365 03:14:26,237 --> 03:14:27,489 Oh, miss Shirley! 3366 03:14:27,614 --> 03:14:30,575 I'm gonna wear my hair just like that when I turn eighteen! 3367 03:14:30,784 --> 03:14:32,243 You darlings! 3368 03:14:32,577 --> 03:14:35,997 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. 3369 03:14:36,247 --> 03:14:38,249 Would you run along and see if my cab is here? 3370 03:14:38,500 --> 03:14:39,918 Thank you! 3371 03:14:49,344 --> 03:14:55,141 My, my...Going to London to visit the queen, are we? 3372 03:14:55,392 --> 03:14:57,560 Are you not capable of saying anything pleasant? 3373 03:14:57,811 --> 03:14:58,395 No. 3374 03:14:58,520 --> 03:15:00,355 I haven't your talent for pretending things. 3375 03:15:01,815 --> 03:15:04,734 You take my breath away with your compliments. 3376 03:15:05,360 --> 03:15:09,322 You always have some secret delight, don't you? 3377 03:15:10,323 --> 03:15:12,200 Don't deceive yourself! 3378 03:15:12,492 --> 03:15:14,202 You'll never be one of them! 3379 03:15:14,494 --> 03:15:17,205 Despite you flaunting your string of pearls and making 3380 03:15:17,288 --> 03:15:19,791 a spectacle of yourself. 3381 03:15:24,337 --> 03:15:27,257 Morgan Harris is a man of status and achievement. 3382 03:15:27,507 --> 03:15:31,803 And you, my dear, are nothing better than a teacher. 3383 03:15:32,429 --> 03:15:35,223 I don't know what you mean, but I honestly 3384 03:15:35,515 --> 03:15:37,350 feel sorry for you, Katherine. 3385 03:15:37,600 --> 03:15:40,353 You shut out every spark of happiness around you. 3386 03:15:40,603 --> 03:15:43,440 I will not be poisoned by your bitterness! 3387 03:16:13,428 --> 03:16:15,638 You are good luck Anne Shirley. 3388 03:16:15,680 --> 03:16:18,016 This is the largest number of tickets we've ever sold 3389 03:16:18,141 --> 03:16:18,767 for the hospital. 3390 03:16:18,850 --> 03:16:21,978 Well, I enjoy helping out any which way I can Mrs. Pringle. 3391 03:16:22,604 --> 03:16:25,356 Don't get stuck behind that table all night. 3392 03:16:25,607 --> 03:16:27,025 Be sure to get a dance. 3393 03:16:27,275 --> 03:16:28,151 I will. 3394 03:17:10,527 --> 03:17:13,404 You took the teacher's course at queen's. 3395 03:17:13,655 --> 03:17:14,405 Shirley, isn't it? 3396 03:17:14,656 --> 03:17:15,406 Anne Shirley. 3397 03:17:15,657 --> 03:17:16,950 Yes. 3398 03:17:17,033 --> 03:17:17,909 Lewis Allen. 3399 03:17:18,493 --> 03:17:20,495 I remember you won the Avery scholarship 3400 03:17:20,578 --> 03:17:23,373 and Gilbert blythe won the gold medal. 3401 03:17:23,665 --> 03:17:24,916 Yes that's right. 3402 03:17:25,250 --> 03:17:26,793 Pleased to know you. 3403 03:17:27,168 --> 03:17:28,378 What do you do now, Lewis? 3404 03:17:28,670 --> 03:17:30,380 I'm the principal of Richmond public school. 3405 03:17:30,672 --> 03:17:33,424 Not the most adventurous place in the world, but uh I've done 3406 03:17:33,550 --> 03:17:38,471 alright for myself, compared to a lot of others from queen's. 3407 03:17:39,430 --> 03:17:41,349 Do you dance as well as you boast? 3408 03:17:41,516 --> 03:17:42,725 Better. 3409 03:18:19,804 --> 03:18:22,515 Morgan Harris certainly upstaged the pringles 3410 03:18:22,765 --> 03:18:24,475 with that Evans woman. 3411 03:18:24,767 --> 03:18:27,687 They say she's a perfect cat. 3412 03:18:27,770 --> 03:18:29,188 Worth millions though. 3413 03:18:29,272 --> 03:18:32,775 I've met her and believe me it will take all his gold 3414 03:18:32,859 --> 03:18:35,236 to gild a pill like her. 3415 03:18:35,278 --> 03:18:37,363 It's a match of adjoining bank accounts, to be sure. 3416 03:18:45,914 --> 03:18:47,248 Anne! Anne! 3417 03:18:47,707 --> 03:18:48,833 Good evening sir; Or rather goodnight. 3418 03:18:49,083 --> 03:18:50,835 Goodnight? 3419 03:18:51,085 --> 03:18:52,795 You promised me a waltz. 3420 03:18:53,046 --> 03:18:53,838 I'm sorry. 3421 03:18:54,088 --> 03:18:56,841 My card was full all evening. 3422 03:18:57,091 --> 03:18:59,260 You needn't feel obligated to patronize 3423 03:18:59,385 --> 03:19:00,845 a local school teacher. 3424 03:19:01,095 --> 03:19:02,847 I'm sure you've paid handsomely for your tickets. 3425 03:19:03,097 --> 03:19:04,849 Wait a moment, let me explain. 3426 03:19:05,099 --> 03:19:07,810 Please don't spoil the evening for your guest 3427 03:19:07,936 --> 03:19:09,896 by causing a scene. 3428 03:19:29,207 --> 03:19:30,208 Anne. 3429 03:19:30,792 --> 03:19:31,793 Where are you going? 3430 03:19:32,335 --> 03:19:34,754 I'm quite exhausted. 3431 03:19:34,921 --> 03:19:38,216 Please don't complicate matters by making excuses. 3432 03:19:40,218 --> 03:19:42,095 Elvira Evans is a business associate. 3433 03:19:42,345 --> 03:19:44,722 For the past year I have been liquidating the last of her 3434 03:19:44,764 --> 03:19:46,099 father's shipping estate. 3435 03:19:46,516 --> 03:19:49,102 Bringing her to maplehurst was a gesture of hospitality. 3436 03:19:49,352 --> 03:19:52,105 The conclusion of a lengthy transaction. 3437 03:19:52,355 --> 03:19:55,108 I know when I'm being conveniently excluded. 3438 03:19:55,358 --> 03:19:56,109 It isn't that at all. 3439 03:19:56,359 --> 03:19:57,110 Be reasonable. 3440 03:19:57,360 --> 03:19:58,111 Why should I. 3441 03:19:58,361 --> 03:19:59,779 I have no ulterior motives. 3442 03:20:00,071 --> 03:20:01,864 You're acting as fickle-minded as a breeze. 3443 03:20:02,198 --> 03:20:03,074 We all go on about you. 3444 03:20:03,324 --> 03:20:04,075 Even mother. 3445 03:20:04,325 --> 03:20:06,077 She absolutely adores you. 3446 03:20:06,327 --> 03:20:08,830 Under the circumstances how could I have invited you 3447 03:20:08,955 --> 03:20:09,706 this evening? 3448 03:20:09,747 --> 03:20:11,708 Certainly wasn't fishing for an invitation. 3449 03:20:11,791 --> 03:20:14,085 Perhaps it's my wholesome island upbringing, but I have 3450 03:20:14,377 --> 03:20:17,088 no intention of becoming "fancy's fool"! 3451 03:20:17,338 --> 03:20:20,091 I would like you to come back to maplehurst. 3452 03:20:20,341 --> 03:20:22,093 Indeed I don't know why. 3453 03:20:22,343 --> 03:20:23,761 As emmeline's governess perhaps? 3454 03:20:23,886 --> 03:20:25,304 I'll save you the trouble of asking. 3455 03:20:25,596 --> 03:20:27,098 I won't lose you again, Shirley. 3456 03:20:27,348 --> 03:20:28,099 Let go of me. 3457 03:20:28,266 --> 03:20:29,225 Please, I would...Oh! 3458 03:20:30,435 --> 03:20:38,317 Morgan Harris, oh I'm awfully sorry, but you grabbed me. 3459 03:20:39,318 --> 03:20:42,280 I want to ask you to marry me. 3460 03:20:43,281 --> 03:20:45,283 What did you say? 3461 03:20:50,788 --> 03:20:52,749 I'm in love with you. 3462 03:20:53,041 --> 03:20:56,169 You really mean that don't you. 3463 03:20:56,419 --> 03:20:58,171 My life on it. 3464 03:20:58,421 --> 03:21:03,176 I only know I could never bear to lose you. 3465 03:21:03,426 --> 03:21:08,306 Would you do me the honour of giving me your hand in marriage? 3466 03:21:15,313 --> 03:21:19,192 Anne, what is it? 3467 03:21:19,442 --> 03:21:25,156 I do care a great deal for you and emmeline. 3468 03:21:25,323 --> 03:21:27,450 But I can't. 3469 03:21:27,700 --> 03:21:29,077 What do you mean? 3470 03:21:29,702 --> 03:21:31,704 I mean that for five glorious seconds I really thought 3471 03:21:31,788 --> 03:21:34,624 perhaps I could marry you. 3472 03:21:34,791 --> 03:21:37,794 I used to dream of a moment like this. 3473 03:21:37,794 --> 03:21:45,802 Now, I can't describe it, I need to go home. 3474 03:21:45,802 --> 03:21:47,804 You could go back for summer holidays. 3475 03:21:47,804 --> 03:21:52,809 Rent one of those big old places on the Gulf. 3476 03:21:58,022 --> 03:21:59,941 Not the same thing... 3477 03:22:00,191 --> 03:22:02,860 Is it? 3478 03:22:03,611 --> 03:22:05,822 No. 3479 03:22:09,242 --> 03:22:11,119 Look at you. 3480 03:22:11,369 --> 03:22:13,121 You're out here without even your coat on! 3481 03:22:13,121 --> 03:22:15,039 You'll catch your death. 3482 03:22:15,248 --> 03:22:17,375 We should go back in. 3483 03:22:17,667 --> 03:22:24,257 I still have a waltz free. 3484 03:22:24,507 --> 03:22:26,175 Alright? 3485 03:22:28,386 --> 03:22:31,806 Let's give those old ladies something to gossip about. 3486 03:22:34,809 --> 03:22:36,894 Come in... 3487 03:22:39,730 --> 03:22:42,066 Why Mr. McGuinness, what is it? 3488 03:22:42,608 --> 03:22:45,361 You must come quickly to maplehurst, miss. 3489 03:22:45,611 --> 03:22:47,321 Everyone's worried. 3490 03:22:47,572 --> 03:22:50,783 Mrs. Harris has kept silent all week. 3491 03:22:50,992 --> 03:22:52,743 Silent? 3492 03:22:52,994 --> 03:22:55,872 Something must be dreadfully wrong. 3493 03:23:01,836 --> 03:23:04,797 She took a bad spell just after papa left. 3494 03:23:04,964 --> 03:23:08,593 Now she won't eat or drink and poor aunt pauline is beside 3495 03:23:08,676 --> 03:23:12,263 herself to know what we should do. 3496 03:23:20,354 --> 03:23:23,774 Miss Shirley thank goodness you've come. 3497 03:23:23,816 --> 03:23:26,485 I'm afraid that she's slipping away... 3498 03:23:26,736 --> 03:23:30,323 And it's all my fault. 3499 03:23:30,573 --> 03:23:32,491 Isaac Kent wants me to...To...Marry 3500 03:23:32,575 --> 03:23:35,786 him....practically. 3501 03:23:36,579 --> 03:23:39,248 He's asked me to join the presbyterian church 3502 03:23:39,248 --> 03:23:40,541 choir league. 3503 03:23:41,375 --> 03:23:45,963 Mama hates Isaac as much as she did fifteen years ago when she 3504 03:23:46,047 --> 03:23:49,342 set the bull terrier on him for coming around to see me. 3505 03:23:50,051 --> 03:23:52,386 I don't think she'll forgive me. 3506 03:23:53,262 --> 03:23:56,849 I'm so afraid she's going to die... 3507 03:24:01,062 --> 03:24:04,357 You must choose between them, pauline. 3508 03:24:04,607 --> 03:24:07,360 Oh, I don't think I can live without him! 3509 03:24:07,610 --> 03:24:11,322 Don't be frightened now, you must accept! 3510 03:24:11,572 --> 03:24:14,909 Oh, miss Shirley! 3511 03:24:16,744 --> 03:24:19,789 You've always been able to smooth things over with mama. 3512 03:24:20,331 --> 03:24:23,417 Please try to get her to forgive me? 3513 03:24:36,639 --> 03:24:40,643 Oh it's you is it? 3514 03:24:40,810 --> 03:24:43,646 Mrs. Harris please hear me through patiently... 3515 03:24:43,813 --> 03:24:47,650 I'm always patient...Very patient. 3516 03:24:48,317 --> 03:24:52,613 I want you to know that pauline is greatly troubled. 3517 03:24:53,239 --> 03:24:56,742 She is of the opinion that she should accept Isaac Kent's 3518 03:24:56,784 --> 03:24:58,911 hand in marriage. 3519 03:25:01,706 --> 03:25:04,625 I thought there was some foolishness between her 3520 03:25:04,792 --> 03:25:08,838 and that ridiculous fellow! 3521 03:25:09,255 --> 03:25:12,717 In your heart you must know it's the right thing to do. 3522 03:25:13,718 --> 03:25:16,470 The truth is, pauline needs your forgiveness if she's 3523 03:25:16,804 --> 03:25:18,639 ever gonna be happy. 3524 03:25:19,098 --> 03:25:21,225 I advised her to be married. 3525 03:25:21,726 --> 03:25:23,811 And I beg of you to let her go. 3526 03:25:26,522 --> 03:25:32,069 If you've managed to get pauline to accept that Isaac Kent 3527 03:25:32,570 --> 03:25:36,866 you've accomplished more than I thought was humanly possible. 3528 03:25:37,783 --> 03:25:43,122 At least I shan't have to climb down and tell him to take her. 3529 03:25:46,542 --> 03:25:49,545 "I withhold not my heart from any joy..." 3530 03:25:49,795 --> 03:25:51,797 That is Bible authority for you. 3531 03:25:53,382 --> 03:25:56,510 My dear, man is born into trouble 3532 03:25:56,761 --> 03:25:59,305 as the sparks fly upwards... 3533 03:25:59,555 --> 03:26:03,392 Job 5 verse 6, miss Shirley. 3534 03:26:08,189 --> 03:26:12,193 Pauline...come....here....girl! 3535 03:26:16,781 --> 03:26:20,701 No one can deny Margaret pringle Harris' place as a cornerstone 3536 03:26:20,785 --> 03:26:23,704 of our community. 3537 03:26:23,788 --> 03:26:25,790 It is with great remorse that we turn her spirit 3538 03:26:25,873 --> 03:26:28,709 over to her master. 3539 03:26:28,793 --> 03:26:31,712 Though our hearts be troubled with this grave loss, 3540 03:26:31,796 --> 03:26:35,716 we must remind ourselves of the fleetingness of our own lives 3541 03:26:35,800 --> 03:26:39,804 and that some day we shall rejoice with Margaret forever 3542 03:26:39,804 --> 03:26:41,806 in the hereafter. 3543 03:26:41,806 --> 03:26:44,809 Amen. 3544 03:26:55,986 --> 03:26:56,946 Good-bye. 3545 03:26:57,780 --> 03:26:58,781 Thank you. 3546 03:26:59,156 --> 03:27:00,783 You're welcome. 3547 03:27:04,787 --> 03:27:06,789 We're going back to Boston, miss Shirley. 3548 03:27:06,789 --> 03:27:08,791 Pauline has accepted Isaac Kent. 3549 03:27:08,791 --> 03:27:10,793 I've decided to sell maplehurst. 3550 03:27:13,796 --> 03:27:16,006 How I shall miss you em. 3551 03:27:17,007 --> 03:27:19,802 But we will see each other again soon. 3552 03:27:19,802 --> 03:27:25,808 And I promise you I won't ever forget you, just you mind that. 3553 03:27:25,808 --> 03:27:27,810 I will. 3554 03:27:27,810 --> 03:27:29,520 Good-bye miss Shirley. 3555 03:27:32,815 --> 03:27:35,818 There's no one in the whole world like you. 3556 03:27:42,032 --> 03:27:46,787 Please accept my condolences Morgan. 3557 03:27:46,871 --> 03:27:48,789 Mother mentioned you before she went. 3558 03:27:48,873 --> 03:27:53,794 She was very keen on you. 3559 03:27:53,878 --> 03:27:57,298 She was never one to throw away a compliment. 3560 03:27:57,756 --> 03:28:01,802 That means a great deal to me. 3561 03:28:01,886 --> 03:28:05,806 Will you not reconsider? 3562 03:28:05,890 --> 03:28:10,811 I've come very close to reconsidering... 3563 03:28:10,895 --> 03:28:13,397 But it isn't any use Morgan. 3564 03:28:14,815 --> 03:28:16,817 I'll miss you, Anne. 3565 03:28:17,818 --> 03:28:21,780 I hope you rent that big old house on the Gulf someday, 3566 03:28:21,864 --> 03:28:24,783 'cause I'll miss you too. 3567 03:29:11,789 --> 03:29:14,792 I haven't had a chance to thank you miss Brooke it's been such 3568 03:29:15,042 --> 03:29:16,168 a rewarding year. 3569 03:29:16,460 --> 03:29:19,255 Don't be ridiculous, please. 3570 03:29:21,840 --> 03:29:24,343 Where will you be spending your summer holidays? 3571 03:29:24,593 --> 03:29:25,427 Here in this fire-trap. 3572 03:29:25,678 --> 03:29:27,429 Where did you suppose? 3573 03:29:27,721 --> 03:29:29,557 Why stay if you don't like it? 3574 03:29:29,807 --> 03:29:31,559 Why...why? 3575 03:29:36,146 --> 03:29:37,940 Don't trouble yourself. 3576 03:29:38,315 --> 03:29:39,108 You've paid your lip service. 3577 03:29:39,358 --> 03:29:40,943 Now good-bye. 3578 03:29:41,277 --> 03:29:43,279 I shall see you next term. 3579 03:29:44,280 --> 03:29:46,156 I won't be coming back next term. 3580 03:29:46,407 --> 03:29:50,160 I've given my resignation to the board and miss Stacey. 3581 03:29:51,245 --> 03:29:53,789 I came here to ask you if you'd like to spend your holidays 3582 03:29:53,914 --> 03:29:55,791 with me at green gables. 3583 03:29:55,916 --> 03:29:57,084 Unless you have somewhere else you're going. 3584 03:29:57,334 --> 03:30:00,504 An outburst of charity... 3585 03:30:00,796 --> 03:30:04,758 I'm hardly a candidate for that yet. 3586 03:30:04,800 --> 03:30:07,136 Katherine Brooke whether you know it or not what you want 3587 03:30:07,386 --> 03:30:09,346 is a darn good spanking. 3588 03:30:10,014 --> 03:30:11,932 It must have relieved you to say that. 3589 03:30:12,182 --> 03:30:12,933 It has. 3590 03:30:13,183 --> 03:30:17,813 And I've wanted to say it to you for a very long time. 3591 03:30:18,105 --> 03:30:19,940 But I have asked you to come because the very idea 3592 03:30:20,190 --> 03:30:22,943 of you spending the summer cooped up in here is indecent. 3593 03:30:23,193 --> 03:30:25,904 You asked me because you feel sorry for me. 3594 03:30:26,572 --> 03:30:28,324 I am sorry for you. 3595 03:30:28,574 --> 03:30:32,411 You shut out life and now life is shutting you out. 3596 03:30:33,412 --> 03:30:35,414 Now are you coming or not? 3597 03:30:36,415 --> 03:30:39,418 What would you say if I accepted? 3598 03:30:39,668 --> 03:30:42,921 I'd say that's the first faint glimmer of common sense 3599 03:30:42,963 --> 03:30:44,798 I've ever detected in you. 3600 03:30:54,892 --> 03:30:56,894 Alright I accept. 3601 03:30:57,311 --> 03:30:59,813 Now you can go through the motions of telling me how 3602 03:30:59,938 --> 03:31:03,901 delighted you are and how I'll have a wonderful time. 3603 03:31:04,360 --> 03:31:06,570 I am delighted. 3604 03:31:06,779 --> 03:31:10,199 But as to a wonderful time that will depend entirely 3605 03:31:10,240 --> 03:31:12,660 on you Katherine. 3606 03:31:20,084 --> 03:31:22,628 The murder trials in this Boston paper my niece sent me 3607 03:31:22,795 --> 03:31:23,796 are real interesting marilla. 3608 03:31:24,254 --> 03:31:25,798 Full of heathen, that place. 3609 03:31:26,048 --> 03:31:29,718 I hope Anne will never go there again. 3610 03:31:30,469 --> 03:31:33,222 Can you imagine that new minister going on about how he 3611 03:31:33,472 --> 03:31:35,849 doesn't believe that all the heathen will be eternally lost! 3612 03:31:36,475 --> 03:31:37,393 The idea! 3613 03:31:37,810 --> 03:31:40,354 If they won't be, all the money we've been sending to the 3614 03:31:40,604 --> 03:31:43,357 foreign missions will be completely wasted, that's what! 3615 03:31:43,607 --> 03:31:45,359 I wouldn't fret if I were you Rachel. 3616 03:31:45,609 --> 03:31:48,362 Goodness knows the world is full of beggars and it's a pretty 3617 03:31:48,570 --> 03:31:54,743 pass if we can't help a fellow being in need, Christian or not. 3618 03:32:00,958 --> 03:32:02,793 Marilla cuthbert! 3619 03:32:02,960 --> 03:32:04,878 Don't you be buying any junk from those peddlers just 3620 03:32:05,129 --> 03:32:06,964 to satisfy your conscience. 3621 03:32:08,132 --> 03:32:11,343 Oh it's an ill wind that blows no good. 3622 03:32:11,802 --> 03:32:14,346 Come back here you'll kill yourself running. 3623 03:32:21,979 --> 03:32:23,439 Oh, marilla! 3624 03:32:23,522 --> 03:32:24,940 Anne Shirley! 3625 03:32:25,149 --> 03:32:26,817 I'm home marilla. 3626 03:32:26,984 --> 03:32:27,901 I'm home to stay. 3627 03:32:28,152 --> 03:32:29,903 Oh you blessed child! 3628 03:32:29,987 --> 03:32:31,488 How I've missed you. 3629 03:32:31,822 --> 03:32:33,031 We were looking for you tomorrow. 3630 03:32:33,115 --> 03:32:34,616 How did you get from bright river? 3631 03:32:34,700 --> 03:32:36,493 I walked, dearest of marillas. 3632 03:32:36,577 --> 03:32:38,412 We left our luggage at the station. 3633 03:32:38,537 --> 03:32:40,914 I got homesick all at once and I wanted to show Katherine 3634 03:32:40,956 --> 03:32:42,708 all my old haunts. 3635 03:32:42,833 --> 03:32:44,168 Welcome to green gables. 3636 03:32:44,793 --> 03:32:47,796 Thank you for having me miss cuthbert. 3637 03:32:49,006 --> 03:32:50,674 Aren't these blossoms fragrant? 3638 03:32:50,799 --> 03:32:51,675 Smell them marilla... 3639 03:32:51,800 --> 03:32:53,427 Drink them in. 3640 03:32:53,427 --> 03:32:55,471 Now enough of that nonsense. 3641 03:32:55,804 --> 03:32:59,850 It's you I want to hear about, not drinking in blossoms. 3642 03:33:00,809 --> 03:33:03,896 You must be real tired, Katherine. 3643 03:33:04,188 --> 03:33:06,190 Come and have a cup of tea on the verandah. 3644 03:33:06,482 --> 03:33:08,942 Oh, let's go slowly marilla. 3645 03:33:09,193 --> 03:33:11,862 I've dreamt of this moment all year. 3646 03:33:12,154 --> 03:33:13,989 I want to soak it all in. 3647 03:33:14,782 --> 03:33:17,785 Not if Rachel has anything to do with it, she'll want to spill 3648 03:33:17,951 --> 03:33:19,787 out all the news of avonlea. 3649 03:33:20,078 --> 03:33:21,288 Oh Anne Shirley. 3650 03:33:21,330 --> 03:33:22,498 I've got so much to tell you! 3651 03:33:22,498 --> 03:33:24,458 There's so much going on in avonlea. 3652 03:33:25,125 --> 03:33:28,003 Oh Rachel, I have so much to tell you! 3653 03:33:28,378 --> 03:33:30,672 It's so good to see you again! 3654 03:33:32,007 --> 03:33:33,801 Rachel, this is Katherine Brooke. 3655 03:33:33,842 --> 03:33:34,635 Rachel lynde. 3656 03:33:34,676 --> 03:33:35,344 How do you do? 3657 03:33:35,344 --> 03:33:35,969 Pleased to meet you. 3658 03:33:36,011 --> 03:33:37,930 Come on in now you must be starving 3659 03:33:40,432 --> 03:33:43,018 green gables never changes. 3660 03:33:43,268 --> 03:33:47,815 That's the beautiful thing about coming home, don't you think? 3661 03:33:54,112 --> 03:33:56,114 Katherine? 3662 03:33:59,284 --> 03:34:00,619 What's wrong? 3663 03:34:02,454 --> 03:34:04,456 Can I help you? 3664 03:34:06,124 --> 03:34:07,876 You can't understand! 3665 03:34:09,127 --> 03:34:12,130 Everything's always been so easy for you. 3666 03:34:13,966 --> 03:34:15,050 I'm caught in a trap. 3667 03:34:15,300 --> 03:34:18,554 I - I don't' think I'm ever going to be able to get out! 3668 03:34:18,804 --> 03:34:21,139 You don't hate me any longer, do you? 3669 03:34:21,557 --> 03:34:23,559 Oh Anne. 3670 03:34:23,809 --> 03:34:28,063 Hate has got to be like a disease with me! 3671 03:34:28,313 --> 03:34:32,067 I can never lead a normal life, now. 3672 03:34:32,317 --> 03:34:35,070 Yes you can! 3673 03:34:35,320 --> 03:34:40,117 You'll be quite independent and free here! 3674 03:34:40,367 --> 03:34:45,414 When I was a little girl, I remember an old faded print 3675 03:34:45,664 --> 03:34:49,167 on my uncle's wall showing a string of camels 3676 03:34:49,418 --> 03:34:55,340 around a desert with a palm spring. 3677 03:34:55,591 --> 03:35:00,137 I've always wanted to travel and see that place. 3678 03:35:00,387 --> 03:35:06,810 To see the Taj Mahal, the pillars at carnet! 3679 03:35:06,977 --> 03:35:09,813 I want to know, not just believe, 3680 03:35:09,813 --> 03:35:12,816 that the world is round. 3681 03:35:12,983 --> 03:35:16,778 I could never do it on a teacher's salary. 3682 03:35:16,778 --> 03:35:20,157 I shall have to go on forever, prating about discipline 3683 03:35:20,407 --> 03:35:23,785 and the inexhaustible resources of the dominion! 3684 03:35:25,412 --> 03:35:27,789 I always wanted to be your friend, Katherine 3685 03:35:27,831 --> 03:35:29,791 spelled with a "k". 3686 03:35:30,459 --> 03:35:35,797 Underneath all your prickles, you really are a kindred spirit! 3687 03:35:39,801 --> 03:35:42,638 Does life never frighten you with its bleakness, 3688 03:35:42,804 --> 03:35:44,681 Anne Shirley? 3689 03:35:47,809 --> 03:35:50,812 This is the first place that I've ever been to that feels 3690 03:35:50,854 --> 03:35:54,232 like a real...Home. 3691 03:36:12,668 --> 03:36:14,044 Isn't he perfect? 3692 03:36:14,086 --> 03:36:17,214 He is the most perfect baby I've ever seen, Diana. 3693 03:36:17,464 --> 03:36:21,802 Every baby is the sweetest and the best. 3694 03:36:21,843 --> 03:36:25,305 Before he came I wanted a girl so I could call her Anne. 3695 03:36:25,681 --> 03:36:29,226 But I wouldn't exchange baby Fred for a million girls. 3696 03:36:29,476 --> 03:36:32,229 If you had an Anne you'd feel the same about her. 3697 03:36:32,479 --> 03:36:34,606 Would you like to hold the baby Katherine? 3698 03:36:34,773 --> 03:36:38,402 No, no...I've never held a baby in my life. 3699 03:36:38,527 --> 03:36:40,153 Never held a baby! 3700 03:36:40,278 --> 03:36:42,114 Don't be silly. 3701 03:36:43,740 --> 03:36:46,243 I'm afraid of it going to pieces in my arms. 3702 03:36:49,371 --> 03:36:52,916 There you are, he's taken with you Katherine. 3703 03:36:58,797 --> 03:37:01,800 It feels so good to see you dear folk again. 3704 03:37:02,342 --> 03:37:04,678 I want to hear all the avonlea news. 3705 03:37:04,761 --> 03:37:07,681 I've grown a whole inch since you left Anne. 3706 03:37:07,681 --> 03:37:10,809 And now that squirt Anthony pye can't pick on me anymore. 3707 03:37:10,892 --> 03:37:12,436 Can't you think of any more interesting news 3708 03:37:12,477 --> 03:37:13,812 than that minnie may! 3709 03:37:13,895 --> 03:37:17,816 Did you know that Gilbert blythe was dying? 3710 03:37:18,358 --> 03:37:21,111 Minnie may hold your tongue! 3711 03:37:21,361 --> 03:37:23,613 What do you mean Diana? 3712 03:37:23,905 --> 03:37:26,074 We didn't mean to tell you so suddenly, Anne. 3713 03:37:26,324 --> 03:37:29,369 He took Scarlet fever in mid-term. 3714 03:37:29,870 --> 03:37:32,789 He picked it up at the hospital in halifax. 3715 03:37:32,873 --> 03:37:35,792 Terrible worn out with school I expect. 3716 03:37:35,876 --> 03:37:39,796 They got a trained nurse and everything's been done. 3717 03:38:25,842 --> 03:38:27,803 I picked this up at the post office. 3718 03:38:28,011 --> 03:38:30,847 It's addressed to you. 3719 03:38:31,389 --> 03:38:34,267 My...my book! 3720 03:38:34,518 --> 03:38:36,269 Well don't sit there shaking like a leaf! 3721 03:38:36,603 --> 03:38:38,105 Open it. 3722 03:38:39,940 --> 03:38:40,857 Oh marilla. 3723 03:38:41,108 --> 03:38:42,943 This can't be real. 3724 03:38:43,944 --> 03:38:49,449 They accepted my manuscript last February with a $250 advance. 3725 03:38:49,908 --> 03:38:52,911 You're a great one for secrets. 3726 03:38:54,454 --> 03:38:57,833 It's not a classic or a romance or anything important. 3727 03:38:58,416 --> 03:39:01,211 Just a humorous book of stories I did about avonlea 3728 03:39:01,378 --> 03:39:04,172 in my spare time last fall. 3729 03:39:05,924 --> 03:39:09,678 But it's mine, it's all mine. 3730 03:39:10,053 --> 03:39:14,933 "To marilla and Matthew cuthbert for their unfailing love and 3731 03:39:15,100 --> 03:39:19,855 support and for Gilbert who inspired me with the idea 3732 03:39:20,105 --> 03:39:22,732 in the first place." 3733 03:39:25,944 --> 03:39:27,821 You do beat all Anne. 3734 03:39:28,071 --> 03:39:30,907 Everyone'll think I put you up to it. 3735 03:39:31,992 --> 03:39:37,956 That's awful good of you; Especially considering Gilbert. 3736 03:39:39,708 --> 03:39:42,127 How sick is he really? 3737 03:39:43,920 --> 03:39:45,839 It's been a bad case from the start. 3738 03:39:46,089 --> 03:39:50,844 No one's heard anything the past week. 3739 03:39:51,595 --> 03:39:53,847 He has the blythe constitution 3740 03:39:53,889 --> 03:39:59,060 in his favour though...If god wills it. 3741 03:40:01,146 --> 03:40:06,860 Marilla there's a book of revelations in everyone's life. 3742 03:40:07,110 --> 03:40:12,782 I've been so wrong.. If Gil were to... 3743 03:40:13,867 --> 03:40:17,746 ...not knowing how I really care. 3744 03:40:18,246 --> 03:40:22,834 Oh, there there now. 3745 03:40:23,501 --> 03:40:26,129 What would I do without him? 3746 03:40:26,671 --> 03:40:31,968 We can't change what god determines. 3747 03:40:43,355 --> 03:40:48,026 Jerry boote...Jerry boote works for Mr. Blythe. 3748 03:40:48,568 --> 03:40:50,445 It must be a sign. 3749 03:40:52,781 --> 03:40:54,241 The worst would be more endurable 3750 03:40:54,532 --> 03:40:55,951 than not knowing at all. 3751 03:41:06,002 --> 03:41:09,005 Jerry! Jerry! 3752 03:41:11,341 --> 03:41:13,343 Jerry, wait! 3753 03:41:15,637 --> 03:41:19,557 Jerry do you know how Gilbert blythe is doing? 3754 03:41:19,808 --> 03:41:21,643 I think, I think he's bad. 3755 03:41:21,810 --> 03:41:24,562 The blythes are all hoping he's gonna get better. 3756 03:41:24,646 --> 03:41:25,647 I don't know. 3757 03:41:25,814 --> 03:41:27,440 The doctor figures maybe 3758 03:41:27,482 --> 03:41:29,567 he's gonna have a close shave yet, though. 3759 03:41:29,818 --> 03:41:32,570 Will you ask Mr. Blythe to give him this for me? 3760 03:41:32,779 --> 03:41:35,615 Come with me if you like and give it to him yourself. 3761 03:42:02,100 --> 03:42:04,019 Hello Gil. 3762 03:42:04,269 --> 03:42:06,896 It's me. 3763 03:42:07,147 --> 03:42:10,567 Anne. 3764 03:42:14,112 --> 03:42:15,989 I've come to ask you to go for one of our old-time 3765 03:42:16,239 --> 03:42:19,075 rambles in the woods. 3766 03:42:20,076 --> 03:42:23,997 Wish I could go. 3767 03:42:24,247 --> 03:42:26,041 I brought you my book. 3768 03:42:26,291 --> 03:42:29,002 I've been published Gil. 3769 03:42:29,252 --> 03:42:34,090 I wrote about avonlea just as you said I should. 3770 03:42:35,091 --> 03:42:40,180 Without any "high faulting mumbo jumbo". 3771 03:42:41,514 --> 03:42:45,185 I've dedicated the inscription to marilla 3772 03:42:45,185 --> 03:42:50,523 and to Matthew, and... to you. 3773 03:42:50,815 --> 03:42:53,651 I was planning on saving it as a wedding gift, and then 3774 03:42:53,943 --> 03:42:56,780 I just decided I couldn't wait. 3775 03:42:57,280 --> 03:43:03,286 Anne, there's not going to be any wedding, anymore. 3776 03:43:04,162 --> 03:43:07,207 You're gonna well again Gil. I know you will. 3777 03:43:07,707 --> 03:43:10,543 I called it off. 3778 03:43:11,419 --> 03:43:13,755 It wouldn't be fair to Christine. 3779 03:43:16,591 --> 03:43:18,176 Oh Gil... 3780 03:43:18,510 --> 03:43:21,346 There would never be anyone for me but you. 3781 03:43:42,242 --> 03:43:47,163 Oh, Anne, the summer's flown by so quickly. 3782 03:43:47,414 --> 03:43:50,166 A school teacher really is a slave of time. 3783 03:43:50,417 --> 03:43:52,836 I don't know how i'm ever going to go back. 3784 03:43:52,961 --> 03:43:54,337 Don't be silly. 3785 03:43:54,838 --> 03:43:56,756 There's always another bend in the road. 3786 03:43:57,215 --> 03:43:58,133 Bend in the road. 3787 03:43:58,174 --> 03:43:59,926 There's no bend in my road. 3788 03:44:00,009 --> 03:44:05,807 I can see it stretching out in front of me to the skyline. 3789 03:44:06,057 --> 03:44:07,809 Katherine, just look at you. 3790 03:44:08,017 --> 03:44:09,769 You're rosy and healthy. 3791 03:44:10,186 --> 03:44:12,021 And you hair looks so attractive like that 3792 03:44:12,272 --> 03:44:14,941 instead of all pulled back. 3793 03:44:15,066 --> 03:44:18,111 Besides, I happen to know of two eligible young men 3794 03:44:18,445 --> 03:44:20,155 who've asked about you. 3795 03:44:20,405 --> 03:44:22,157 Really? 3796 03:44:22,407 --> 03:44:24,159 They're gonna be at the bonfire tonight. 3797 03:44:24,409 --> 03:44:28,997 Oh, I wouldn't know what to say to them. 3798 03:44:29,247 --> 03:44:30,790 Will you help me, Anne? 3799 03:44:31,207 --> 03:44:34,085 They'll just laugh at me and think I'm an old gooseberry. 3800 03:44:34,377 --> 03:44:37,255 You give yourself far too little credit. 3801 03:44:37,505 --> 03:44:39,924 I wish I had your confidence. 3802 03:44:41,718 --> 03:44:45,346 I can believe almost anything of this green gables of yours. 3803 03:44:46,973 --> 03:44:48,975 Well, mine's full. 3804 03:44:49,601 --> 03:44:50,935 I'll be along. 3805 03:44:50,977 --> 03:44:52,854 I want to make sure marilla has three full bushels. 3806 03:45:07,702 --> 03:45:08,620 Hello Anne. 3807 03:45:08,661 --> 03:45:09,829 Hello Gil. 3808 03:45:10,121 --> 03:45:11,539 You're looking very robust. 3809 03:45:11,789 --> 03:45:15,168 Well, I...Uh...I guess I just made up my mind 3810 03:45:15,168 --> 03:45:17,337 I wasn't going to let it lick me. 3811 03:45:18,713 --> 03:45:20,715 Care for a stroll down the Lane. 3812 03:45:20,882 --> 03:45:23,259 I don't think there's going to be many more fine afternoons 3813 03:45:23,510 --> 03:45:25,261 like this left in the summer. 3814 03:45:25,512 --> 03:45:27,263 I wish I could, but... 3815 03:45:27,514 --> 03:45:30,266 Katherine and I, we're off to Alice penhallow's bonfire 3816 03:45:30,517 --> 03:45:31,267 in an hour. 3817 03:45:31,518 --> 03:45:34,771 It's the first party I'm taking her to and she's very nervous. 3818 03:45:36,356 --> 03:45:38,858 How about I walk you across the pond. 3819 03:45:42,445 --> 03:45:45,323 I was really afraid for you Gil, until we heard you 3820 03:45:45,573 --> 03:45:47,033 were over the worst. 3821 03:45:47,492 --> 03:45:48,493 Well I was lucky I suppose. 3822 03:45:49,786 --> 03:45:51,412 I'm not quite my old self yet. 3823 03:45:52,413 --> 03:45:54,791 By the time term starts I'll be in fine form. 3824 03:45:55,917 --> 03:45:57,794 I'm glad you came back when you did Anne. 3825 03:45:58,211 --> 03:45:59,045 It meant a lot to me. 3826 03:45:59,796 --> 03:46:01,005 I finally read your book. 3827 03:46:01,798 --> 03:46:03,633 It's a fine piece of work. 3828 03:46:03,841 --> 03:46:04,842 I knew you could do it. 3829 03:46:05,802 --> 03:46:08,429 The publishers are already planning a second edition. 3830 03:46:10,640 --> 03:46:15,436 It was a long lesson to learn, but you were right. 3831 03:46:16,437 --> 03:46:17,772 I'm not going back to kingsport. 3832 03:46:17,855 --> 03:46:20,358 I'm gonna stay here at green gables and write. 3833 03:46:20,441 --> 03:46:22,694 Private girls' school was too rough on you, was it? 3834 03:46:22,902 --> 03:46:24,153 No. 3835 03:46:24,904 --> 03:46:28,533 It's just that I went looking for my ideals outside of myself. 3836 03:46:28,783 --> 03:46:30,535 I've discovered it's not what the world holds for you, 3837 03:46:30,785 --> 03:46:32,787 it's what you bring to it. 3838 03:46:35,790 --> 03:46:38,876 The dreams dearest to my heart are right here. 3839 03:46:40,587 --> 03:46:42,839 Well I hope you keep on dreaming. 3840 03:46:46,467 --> 03:46:50,805 It'll be three years before I finish medical school. 3841 03:46:51,055 --> 03:46:54,183 Even then there won't be any diamond sunbursts 3842 03:46:54,225 --> 03:46:55,810 or marble halls. 3843 03:46:56,644 --> 03:47:00,690 I don't want sunbursts or marble halls. 3844 03:47:01,899 --> 03:47:05,778 I just want you.