About this story
Then a letter from a doctor tells her she has a year. What follows is the funniest thing Montgomery ever wrote and the least like Anne of Green Gables: a woman working through a lifetime of swallowed remarks, one relative at a time, then walking out of the house entirely. You choose what she finally says.
Who you’ll meet
single figure
How it opens
Rain pressed softly against the window before dawn reached Deerwood.
The narrow room held a cracked mirror, a faded rug, and unwanted relics.
Mrs Frederick StirlingThe rain has cancelled the picnic entirely.
Cousin SticklesA family birthday indoors will be quite sufficient.
Choose
This rain has cancelled nothing I wanted.
Twenty-nine deserves a quieter beginning.