Anne wondered helplessly what she could say that would help her.

Could she say anything?
"I think, Ruby," she began hesitatingly--for it was difficult for Anne to speak to any one of the deepest thoughts of her heart, or the new ideas that had vaguely begun to shape themselves in her mind, concerning the great mysteries of life here and hereafter, superseding her old childish conceptions, and it was hardest of all to speak of them to such as Ruby Gillis--"I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven--what it is and what it holds for us.

I don't think it can be so very different from life here as most people seem to think.

I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here--and be OURSELVES just the same--only it will be easier to be good and to--follow the highest.

All the hindrances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly.