"Two suns hold not their courses in one sphere." But they did not clash at all, for Mrs.Rachel was in the kitchen helping Anne and Marilla with the dinner, and it fell to Gilbert to entertain Captain Jim and Miss Cornelia,--or rather to be entertained by them, for a dialogue between those two old friends and antagonists was assuredly never dull.
"It's many a year since there was a Christmas dinner here, Mistress Blythe," said Captain Jim.

"Miss Russell always went to her friends in town for Christmas.

But I was here to the first Christmas dinner that was ever eaten in this house--and the schoolmaster's bride cooked it.
That was sixty years ago today, Mistress Blythe--and a day very like this--just enough snow to make the hills white, and the harbor as blue as June.

I was only a lad, and I'd never been invited out to dinner before, and I was too shy to eat enough.

I've got all over THAT." "Most men do," said Miss Cornelia, sewing furiously.