"Why, that is where I was born." "Do you really mean it?
Why, that makes you a Bluenose after all." "No, it doesn't," retorted Anne.

"Wasn't it Dan O'Connell who said that if a man was born in a stable it didn't make him a horse?
I'm Island to the core." "Well, I'm glad you were born in Bolingbroke anyway.

It makes us kind of neighbors, doesn't it?
And I like that, because when I tell you secrets it won't be as if I were telling them to a stranger.

I have to tell them.

I can't keep secrets--it's no use to try.