About this story
Matthew is too shy to say so on the eight-mile drive; Marilla means to send her back the moment she stops talking, which does not come. Montgomery filled Avonlea with hard heads for an imagination to break against, and made Prince Edward Island a place people cross oceans to see. You are Anne — with an e — and Marilla is the one to win.
Who you’ll meet
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert — the reader is Anne, so she is the one off camera.
How it opens
The five-thirty train had already pulled beyond the last curve.
Coal smoke thinned above the long platform in the June evening.
StationmasterThe Cuthberts have managed to be late.
StationmasterI can leave the waiting room open a little longer.
Choose
The platform gives thought more room.
Someone promised to come for me.