There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life.

I wonder how I managed it ?" "Phil," pleaded Anne, "please go away and leave me alone for a little while.

My world has tumbled into pieces.

I want to reconstruct it." "Without any Gilbert in it ?" said Phil, going.
A world without any Gilbert in it! Anne repeated the words drearily.
Would it not be a very lonely, forlorn place?
Well, it was all Gilbert's fault.

He had spoiled their beautiful comradeship.