01x24 - It's the Birthday of Our Happiness

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Roy: Anne,

Roy: would you accept my love and consent to marry me?

Anne: I can't.

Anne: I can't.

Anne: I can't marry you.

Anne: I can't!

Roy: Why can't you?

Anne: Because—I don't care enough for you.

Roy: So you've just been amusing yourself?

Anne: No, no, I haven't.

Anne: I did think I cared. Truly I did.

Anne: But I know now I don't.

Roy: You have ruined my life.

Anne: Forgive me.

Roy: You can give me no hope?

Roy: You are the only woman I can ever love.

Roy: I thank you for your friendship, at least.

Roy: Goodbye.

Chapter

It's the Birthdayof Our Happiness

Philippa: How did it go?

Anne: Wait. Wait till you hear what I have to say.

Anne: Roy asked me to marry him.

Anne: And I refused.

Philippa: Y-You refused him?

Anne: Oh, Phil, don't scold me. You don't understand.

Philippa: I certainly don't understand.

Philippa: You've encouraged Roy in every way all this time,

Philippa: and now you tell me you've refused him.

Philippa: Then you've just been flirting scandalously with him.

Philippa: I couldn't have believed it of you.

Anne: I didn't! You don't understand!

Philippa: Then, why?

Anne: Oh, I can't explain it to you any more than I could to him.

Philippa: Well, I suppose there is no use in saying anything to you.

Anne: No, there is no need. I've spoiled everything.

Anne: Roy despises me, and you despise me,

Anne: and I despise myself.

Philippa: You poor darling.

Philippa: Forgive me, Anne.

Philippa: Just come here and let me comfort you.

Philippa: I've no right to scold you.

Philippa: Oh, why must things be so complicated and mixed up in real life?

Dorothy: Roy is feeling terribly just now.

Dorothy: I have to listen to his outpourings every day.

Dorothy: But he'll get over it.

Dorothy: He always does.

Dorothy: He's had to give up on love twice before.

Dorothy: And he got back on his feet.

Roy: You are the only woman I can ever love.

Dorothy: So I don't think you need worry.

Dorothy: I did want you for a sister, but this won't spoil our friendship, will it?

Anne: No, indeed not, Dorothy.

Dorothy: Oh, good! I'll write to you.

Dorothy: Remind me. Your family home is...

Anne: In Avonlea on Prince Edward Island.

Anne: It's called Green Gables.

Marilla: Anne! You're home.

Anne: What has happened to the old Snow Queen, Marilla?

Marilla: Oh, it was rotten at the core.

Marilla: It blew down in the big gale we had in March.

Marilla: That tree was there ever since Matthew and I were young.

Anne: I'll never look from the porch gable window again without a sense of loss.

Anne: Well, tell me all the Avonlea news.

Lynde: There isn't much news except what we've wrote you.

Marilla: Rachel, have you told Anne the news about Jane?

Anne: What's happened to Jane?

Lynde: Jane Andrews is going to be married to a Winnipeg millionaire.

Anne: Dear old Jane! I'm so glad.

Anne: She deserves the good things of life.

Lynde: Oh, Jane's a nice enough girl.

Lynde: But she isn't in the millionaire class.

Lynde: Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big

Lynde: that it looks like a plaster on Jane's fat paw.

Anne: I think you're being unkind.

Lynde: Am I, now?

Marilla: Rachel minds that you're not spoken for by anyone yet.

Anne: My just desserts. I've ruined every chance I had.

Marilla: You mean that fellow Roy?

Anne: Yes. I'm going to face the punishment for what I've done.

Marilla: You tormenting yourself won't do anybody any good.

Marilla: What has Gilbert Blythe been doing to himself at college?

Marilla: I saw him when he came home last week,

Marilla: and he is so pale and thin I hardly knew him.

Anne: He studied very hard last winter.

Anne: He's going to start themedical course at Redmond,

Anne: so I think he's rather run down.

Anne: You know he took the Cooper Prize.

Anne: It hasn't been taken for five years!

Lynde: And you took Highest Honors in English.

Lynde: Jane Andrews could never have managed that.

Anne: Mrs. Lynde!

Anne: How is Diana?

Anne: It is lonely coming home without her here to welcome me.

Marilla: Diana has something else to think of just now.

Marilla: You must have heard.

Marilla: Why don't you go and see her yourself?

Anne: My! Isn't he delightful!

Diana: Look! Anne's come home.

Anne: He looks just like Fred!

Diana: Before he came, I wanted a girl, so that I could call her Anne.

Diana: But now that little Fred is here, I wouldn't exchange him for a million girls.

Mrs. Allan: "Every little baby is the sweetest and the best."

Mrs. Allan: If little Anne had come, you'd have felt just the same about her.

Diana: Yes, Mrs. Allan, you're exactly right.

Diana: I can hardly wait till he gets old enough to talk.

Diana: I just long to hear him say "mother" with a smile.

Minister: ...in sickness and in health...

Philippa: Mother thinks it's terrible.

Minister: ...in good times and in bad...

Philippa: She thinks Jo might at least take a church in a decent place.

Philippa: But the wilderness of the Patterson slums

Philippa: will blossom like the rose for me if Jo is there.

Philippa: Oh, Anne,

Philippa: I'm so happy my heart aches with it.

Anne: I'm surrounded by happiness, Matthew.

Anne: Yes, of course, Matthew.

Anne: I'm happy, too.

Anne: "I've tried the world—it wears no more"

Anne: "The colouring of romance it wore."

Marilla: See here, Davy. Not a word to Anne about—

Anne: I'm back!

Marilla: Oh, Anne. You're home.

Davy: It's good to see you again.

Lynde: Come in.

Dora: Welcome home, Anne.

Marilla: I see you're drenched.

Lynde: How was the wedding?

Anne: Oh, Phil was radiant.

Anne: Everyone was so nice, I stayed longer than I meant to.

Anne: "East, west, home's best."

Anne: Davy, have you been growing again lately?

Davy: Yeah. I've growed a wholeinch since you left.

Davy: I'm as tall as Milty Boulter now.

Davy: Say, Anne, did you know that Gilbert Blythe is dying?

Marilla: Davy!

Anne: Gilbert is... what?

Davy: Like I said, he's dying.

Marilla: Davy!

Lynde: Anne, don't look like that—don't look like that!

Marilla: We didn't mean to tell you so suddenly.

Anne: Is it true?

Marilla: Gilbert is very ill.

Marilla: He took down with typhoid fever just after you left for Bolingbroke.

Marilla: The doctor said he'd been terribly run down.

Marilla: But while there's life, there's hope.

Davy: Mr. Harrison said they had no hope of him.

Marilla: Davy!

Davy: Well he did!

Anne: Gilbert is dying.

Anne: Gilbert is...

Anne: If Gilbert goes away from me,I cannot live, either.

Anne: Yes, I know now.

Anne: I... I...

Anne: You're not...

Anne: who I want.

Ideal Man: You've always loved Gilbert, haven't you?

Ideal Man: Since you were children.

Ideal Man: It's too late now.

Ideal Man: If you hadn't been so foolish, you would have the right to go to him now.

Ideal Man: You could have had the bitter solace

Ideal Man: of being with him at the last.

Ideal Man: But Gilbert will leave this life never knowing that you loved him.

Ideal Man: Sad, despondent, thinking you never cared.

Anne: No!

Anne: No! No!

Anne: I love him!

Anne: I love... I love Gilbert!

Anne: I do love him! I do!

Anne: So please...

Anne: don't take him from me.

Ideal Man: Gilbert will leave this life never knowing that you loved him.

Anne: Without Gilbert...

Anne: nothing is of any value.

Anne: Excuse me...

Anne: Excuse...

Anne: I beg your pardon!

Anne: Don't you work for George Fletcher, who lives next door to the Blythes?

Pacifique: That I do.

Anne: Did you come from George Fletcher's this morning?

Pacifique: Sure!

Pacifique: Mr. Fletcher hired another boy to help with the work.

Pacifique: He gets to Bright River on the first train.

Pacifique: I'm going through the woods for a shortcut.

Anne: Th-Then...

Anne: Did you hear how Gilbert Blythewas this morning?

Pacifique: Gilbert?

Pacifique: He's better.

Pacifique: The worst is behind him.

Pacifique: The doctor says he'll be all right any day now.

Pacifique: Well, I must hurry.

Anne: Oh, thank goodness.

Anne: I...

Anne: I can't thank you enough!

Anne: "Weeping may endure for a night"

Anne: "but joy cometh in the morning."

Gilbert: Hello, Anne.

Anne: Gilbert!

Anne: How do you feel?

Gilbert: Much better, thanks to you.

Gilbert: I've come to ask you to go for one of our rambles.

Gilbert: Do you remember the old apple tree we went to see before we left for college?

Anne: Yes, of course.

Anne: But have you forgottentoday is Jane's wedding?

Anne: I've got to do something to this dress.

Gilbert: Well, can you go tomorrow afternoon, then?

Anne: Yes, I think so.

Gilbert: I'll never forgive Jane for not inviting me to her wedding.

Anne: You really can't blame her when you think of all her relations.

Anne: The house can hardly hold them all.

Gilbert: Is it true she'll wear so many diamonds

Gilbert: that you can't tell where the diamonds end and Jane begins?

Anne: I'll tell you once I've seen her.

Gilbert: Good.

Gilbert: Well, I'll be up tomorrow.

Gilbert: Hope you'll have a nice time tonight.

Anne: Thank you.

Anne: Gilbert!

Anne: Let's go for that ramble now, after all.

Gilbert: What about your dress?

Anne: I'll manage it somehow.

Anne: Today is too lovely to waste not walking with you.

Anne: This moment will never come again.

Anne: My!

Anne: It's all in bloom!

Gilbert: Yes. I can hardly wait for the fruit come fall.

Anne: True.

Anne: I feel as though old dreams might return in the midst of all this beauty.

Gilbert: Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?

Anne: Of course. Everybody has.

Anne: None of us could never fulfill all of our dreams.

Anne: And we would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

Gilbert: I have a dream.

Gilbert: Although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true,

Gilbert: I persist in dreaming it.

Gilbert: I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it,

Gilbert: a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends,

Gilbert: and...

Gilbert: and you.

Gilbert: I asked you a question over two years ago.

Anne: I...

Anne: I...

Anne: I can't.

Gilbert: If I ask it again today,

Gilbert: will you give me a different answer?

Anne: B-But what about Christine?

Anne: I thought you loved Christine Stuart.

Gilbert: Christine was engaged to somebody in her hometown.

Gilbert: I knew her brother, and he asked me to look after her for a bit.

Gilbert: I knew college gossip credited us with being in love with each other,

Gilbert: but I didn't care after you told me you could never love me.

Gilbert: And Christine trusted me, anyway.

Gilbert: Anne, there never could be anybody else for me but you.

Gilbert: I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Anne: I don't see how you could keep on loving me when I was such a little fool.

Gilbert: Well, I tried to s especially after Gardner came around.

Gilbert: I felt sure there was no chance for me then.

Gilbert: But I couldn't.

Gilbert: Then the day my fever broke, I got a letter from Phil Gordon—Phil Blake, rather.

Anne: Phil wrote to you?

Gilbert: Yes.

Gilbert: She told me there was really nothing between you and Roy

Gilbert: and advised me to "try again."

Gilbert: Well, the doctor was amazed at my rapid recovery after that.

Gilbert: Anne?

Anne: I can never forget the night I thought you were dying.

Anne: Oh, I knew—I knew then—

Anne: and I thought it was too late.

Gilbert: But it wasn't for either of us, Anne.

Anne: No.

Anne: It's the birthday of our happiness.

Anne: I've always loved apple blossoms,

Anne: and now they will be dearer than ever.

Gilbert: But I'll have to ask you to wait a long time.

Gilbert: It will be three years before I'll finish my medical course.

Gilbert: And even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls.

Anne: I just want you, Gilbert.

Anne: Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well,

Anne: but there is more "scope for imagination" without them.

Anne: And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter.

Anne: We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming.

Anne: Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

Anne: Matthew, we're goingto be married.

Gilbert: We took the long way getting here,

Gilbert: but I promise I'll make her happy.

Anne: Thank you, Matthew.

Anne: I'm so glad I'm your daughter.

italicsAnne: Gracious Heavenly Father,

italicsAnne: thank you so much for my Green Gables,

italicsAnne: for bringing me here to wonderful Green Gables.

Anne: Thank you!

Anne: Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.