bert. Oh, I
knew--I KNEW then--and I thought it was too late."

"But it wasn't, sweetheart. Oh, Anne, this makes up for everything,
doesn't it? Let's resolve to keep this day sacred to perfect beauty all
our lives for the gift it has given us."

"It's the birthday of our happiness," said Anne softly. "I've always
loved this old garden of Hester Gray's, and now it will be dearer than
ever."

"But I'll have to ask you to wait a long time, Anne," said Gilbert
sadly. "It will be three years before I'll finish my medical course. And
even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls."

Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. You see I'm
quite as shameless as Phil about it. Sunbursts and marble halls may be
all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them.
And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy,
waiting and working for each other--and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be
very sweet now."

Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home
together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of
love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever
bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.

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