buster of a good thing'--even if you do know that probably half a dozen
interested people are listening along the line."

"That's the worst of it," sighed Diana. "It's so annoying to hear the
receivers going down whenever you ring anyone up. They say Mrs. Harmon
Andrews insisted that their 'phone should be put in their kitchen just
so that she could listen whenever it rang and keep an eye on the dinner
at the same time. Today, when you called me, I distinctly heard that
queer clock of the Pyes' striking. So no doubt Josie or Gertie was
listening."

"Oh, so that is why you said, 'You've got a new clock at Green Gables,
haven't you?' I couldn't imagine what you meant. I heard a vicious
click as soon as you had spoken. I suppose it was the Pye receiver
being hung up with profane energy. Well, never mind the Pyes. As Mrs.
Rachel says, 'Pyes they always were and Pyes they always will be, world
without end, amen.' I want to talk of pleasanter things. It's all
settled as to where my new home shall be."

"Oh, Anne, where? I do hope it's near here."

"No-o-o, that's the drawback. Gilbert is going to settle at Four Winds
Harbor--sixty miles from here."

"Sixty! It might as well be six hundred," sighed Diana. "I never can
get further from home now than Charlottetown."

"You'll have to come to Four Winds. It's the most beautiful harbor on
the Island. There's a little village called Glen St. Mary at its head,
and Dr. David Blythe has been practicing there for fifty years. He is
Gilbert's great-uncle, you know. He is going to retire, and Gilbert is
to take over his practice. Dr. Blythe is going to keep his house,
though, so we shall have to find a habitation for ourselves. I don't
know yet what it is, or where it will be in reality, but I have a
little house o'dreams all furnished in my imagination--a tiny,
delightful castle in Spain."

"Where are you going for your wedding tour?" asked Diana.

"Nowhere. Don't look horrified, Diana dearest. You suggest Mrs.
Harmon Andrews. She, no doubt, will remark condescendingly that people
who can't afford wedding 'towers' are real sensible not to take them;
and then she'll remind me that Jane went to Europe for hers. I want to
spend MY honeymoon at Four Winds in my own dear house of dreams."

"And you've decided not to have any bridesmaid?"

"There isn't any one to have. You and Phil and Priscilla and Jane all
stole a march on me in the matter of marriage; an