Here we find Anne studying for her B.A. in Redmond. She was with Priscilla, Gilbert and Charlie. In this book I like the chapter on Patty's Place. I can just visualize the simple cottage among the mansions on Millionaire's Row. Trust Anne to find Priscilla, Stella, and Phil to room together to save on living expenses. It was a God send for the four girls to have Aunt Jimsie to keep house for them.
The romantic side of Anne encouraged Roy on for almost two years. But when things came to the crux, Anne could not say yes to his marriage proposal. On the one hand, she had treated him pretty shamefully. Yet on the other hand, she did imagine herself in love with him. I suppose it was difficult to refuse money, position, good looks and good breeding in a man.
It took a life threatening disease in Gilbert to shake some sense into Anne. For someone who had had admirers all her life, it is easy to take Gilbert as a boyhood friend and no more. It took the two years of being courted by Roy to help Anne realize the difference of what is being in love and what is feeling flattered by the attentions of a highly eligible man.
In fact different people marry for entirely different reasons. Anne had chosen love.
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