4/21 It's really dreadful--the way people get scattered over the globe." "The Lord never intended it, that's what," said Mrs.Rachel authoritatively. "In my young days people grew up and married and settled down where they were born, or pretty near it. Thank goodness you've stuck to the Island, Anne. I was afraid Gilbert would insist on rushing off to the ends of the earth when he got through college, and dragging you with him." "If everybody stayed where he was born places would soon be filled up, Mrs.Lynde." "Oh, I'm not going to argue with you, Anne. |