Captain Jim is always saying it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

But I've stayed two--and oh, but I've enjoyed them," she added frankly.
"Come often," said Anne and Gilbert.

They had risen and stood together in the firelight's glow.

Leslie looked at them--youthful, hopeful, happy, typifying all she had missed and must forever miss.

The light went out of her face and eyes; the girl vanished; it was the sorrowful, cheated woman who answered the invitation almost coldly and got herself away with a pitiful haste.
Anne watched her until she was lost in the shadows of the chill and misty night.