14 - It Is Never Too Late for the Real Prince to Come for the True Princess

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[00:05] Diana
    We'll never reach the Kimballs'
    in time for tea now.
[00:12] Anne
    If only we at least knew where we were.
[00:17] Anne
    Diana and I accepted an
    invitation from a friend
[00:20] Anne
    and got ourselves lost in the woods.
[00:24] Diana
    What shall we do?
[00:26] Diana
    Should we turn back and go home?
[00:29] Anne
    Wait.
[00:30] Anne
    There's a house.
[00:35] Diana
    Why, it's Echo Lodge.
[00:41] Diana
    Miss Lavendar Lewis lives here.
    They say she is very peculiar.
[00:45] Anne
    Lavendar Lewis?
[00:47] (Flashback) Lynde
    That Paul is Stephen Irving's boy.
[00:51] (Flashback) Lynde
    You remember. Him that jilted
    Lavendar Lewis over at Grafton?
[00:59] Anne
    I've heard her name before.
[01:04] Charlotta
    Come in, ma'am. And you, ma'am.
[01:07] Anne
    Is Miss Lewis at home?
[01:10] Charlotta
    I'll tell Miss Lavendar
    you're here, ma'am.
[01:15] Charlotta
    And sit down, ma'am.
[01:16] Diana
    Couldn't she have directed us to the road?
[01:19] Anne
    I was curious to see Miss Lavendar.
[01:36] Lavendar
    Welcome to Echo Lodge.
[01:39] Lavendar
    Won't you stay and have tea with me?
[01:42] Anne
    But you are expecting other
    guests, aren't you?
[01:45] Lavendar
    Not at all.
[01:46] Lavendar
    So few people ever come here.
[01:49] Lavendar
    So we just pretended we were
    going to have a tea party.
[01:54] Lavendar
    I know you'll think me dreadfully foolish.
[01:58] Anne
    Oh, no, I—
[01:59] Lavendar
    It's quite all right. I am foolish.
[02:02] Lavendar
    And I'm ashamed of it
    when I'm found out.
SIGN    Chapter 14
SIGN    It Is Never Too Late for the Real Prince to Come
    for the True Princess
[03:41] Marilla
    Lavendar Lewis?
[03:43] Marilla
    It's over fifteen years
    since I saw her last.
[03:46] Marilla
    She was reckoned a great
    beauty when she was a girl.
[03:49] Marilla
    Davy Keith!
[03:51] Marilla
    Don't spread yourself over
    the table in that fashion!
[03:51] Anne
    Her hair is snow-white but her
    face is fresh and almost girlish,
[03:56] Anne
    and she's very interesting.
[04:00] (Flashback) Lavendar
    Of course it's silly in
    anybody as old as I am.
[04:03] (Flashback) Lavendar
    But what is the use of being
    an independent old maid
[04:06] (Flashback) Lavendar
    if you can't be silly when you want to,
     and when it doesn't hurt anybody?
[04:13] Anne
    Miss Lavendar imagines things, too.
[04:18] Anne
    But when we were plucking flowers from
    her garden and getting ready to leave...
[04:24] Anne
    my tongue slipped.
[04:30] (Flashback) Lavendar
    Paul Irving?
[04:33] (Flashback) Anne
    He is a little pupil of mine.
[04:36] (Flashback) Anne
    He came from Boston last year
[04:38] (Flashback) Anne
    to live with his grandmother,
    Mrs. Irving of the shore road.
[04:45] (Flashback) Lavendar
    Then he must be...
[04:47] (Flashback) Lavendar
    Stephen Irving's son.
[04:52] Anne
    That was rash of me.
[04:54] Marilla
    Don't go nosing into other people's affairs.
[04:57] Anne
    I really did not mean to!
[05:01] Anne
    I do wonder what went wrong between
    Miss Lavendar and Paul's father.
[05:07] Marilla
    It must have been something terrible,
    for they broke off their engagement.
[05:12] Marilla
    Then Stephen went away to the
    States and never come home since.
[05:17] Anne
    Perhaps it was nothing
    very dreadful after all.
[05:22] Anne
    It's time I went to the A.V.I.S. meeting.
[05:24] Anne
    Please don't say anything about my
    being at Miss Lavendar's to Mrs. Lynde.
[05:28] Marilla
    I won't, though Rachel's tied down
    home now on account of Thomas.
[05:31] Davy
    Now that tastes fine!
[05:33] Marilla
    Davy!
[05:35] Marilla
    Do stop squirming like an eel!
[05:35] Davy
    It tastes too good to stop!
[05:41] Anne
    Diana and I paid many a visit
    to Echo Lodge after that.
[05:49] Anne
    On days when Diana could
    not go, I went alone.
[05:56] Anne
    Miss Lavendar!
[05:59] Lavendar
    I thought you would come tonight, Anne!
[06:05] Lavendar
    Charlotta the Fourth is away for the night.
[06:09] Lavendar
    I should have been very lonely
    if you hadn't come.
[06:13] Anne
    I told Marilla that I planned to
    stay the night at Echo Lodge.
[06:20] Lavendar
    I'm doubly glad.
[06:22] Lavendar
    Oh, Anne, how pretty you are!
[06:28] Lavendar
    Charlotta the Fourth is the
    youngest of four sisters.
[06:32] Lavendar
    Her real name is...
[06:35] Lavendar
    Leonora!
[06:37] Anne
    Charlotta the Fourth is named Leonora?
[06:40] Lavendar
    Charlotta is her oldest sister's name.
[06:44] Lavendar
    She stayed with me till she was sixteen.
[06:49] Lavendar
    Then came her sister...
[06:51] Lavendar
    Oh, yes! Julietta!
[06:53] Lavendar
    But she looked so like Charlotta that
    I kept calling her that all the time.
[07:00] Lavendar
    And she didn't mind.
[07:02] Lavendar
    So I just gave up trying to remember her
    right name. She was Charlotta the Second.
[07:07] Lavendar
    And when she went away Evelina came
    and she was Charlotta the Third.
[07:12] Lavendar
    Now I have Charlotta the Fourth.
[07:17] Lavendar
    Have I said something funny?
[07:25] Lavendar
    Stephen Irving and me?
[07:28] Anne
    Yes, I've heard that you
    and he were engaged once.
[07:32] Lavendar
    So we were, twenty-five years ago.
[07:39] Lavendar
    We'd been engaged in a way almost
    all our lives, you might say.
[07:46] Lavendar
    He was nine and I was six.
[08:00] Lavendar
    The next time we met,
[08:02] Lavendar
    he told me that he had pretty well made up
     his mind to marry me when he grew up.
[08:08] Lavendar
    I remember that I said, "Thank you."
[08:12] Lavendar
    But...
[08:14] Lavendar
    Not long after our engagement,
[08:17] Lavendar
    we had just a stupid, silly,
    commonplace quarrel.
[08:21] Lavendar
    He was a very high-strung, sensitive fellow.
[08:24] Lavendar
    I suppose I provoked him by
    some foolishness of mine.
[08:29] Lavendar
    One day, when Stephen came
    back to mend matters,
[08:37] Lavendar
    I wouldn't listen to him.
[08:46] Lavendar
    And so he went away for good.
[08:55] Lavendar
    I might have sent for him perhaps,
[08:59] Lavendar
    but I couldn't humble myself to do that.
[09:04] Lavendar
    I knew I would rather be an old maid than
    marry anybody who wasn't Stephen Irving.
[09:11] Lavendar
    Anne?
[09:14] Anne
    I'm sorry. I just...
[09:20] Lavendar
    You look sympathetic as only seventeen
    can look. But don't overdo it.
[09:26] Lavendar
    My heart did break, if ever a heart did,
[09:30] Lavendar
    but real life won't let you stay miserable.
[09:33] Lavendar
    I'm really a very happy, contented little
    person in spite of my broken heart.
[09:39] Lavendar
    I enjoy dreams and echoes and peanut candy.
[09:47] Lavendar
    It gave me a shock to hear about Stephen's
    son that first day you were here, Anne.
[09:54] Lavendar
    What sort of a boy is he?
[09:56] Anne
    He is the dearest, sweetest
    child I ever knew.
[10:01] Lavendar
    I'd like to see him.
[10:03] Lavendar
    I wonder if he looks anything like the
    little dream-boy who lives here with me...
[10:09] Lavendar
    my little dream-boy.
[10:13] Anne
    I'll bring him through with me sometime.
[10:16] Lavendar
    Truly?
[10:17] Anne
    Yes.
[10:18] Lavendar
    But not too soon. I want to
    get used to the thought.
[10:22] Anne
    Oh, am I being rash again?
[10:26] (Flashback) Marilla
    Don't go nosing into other people's affairs.
[10:29] Anne
    I won't tell Marilla. And Paul...
[10:33] Anne
    What shall I say to Paul?
[10:42] Paul
    Why does Miss Lewis want
    to see me, do you think?
[10:46] Anne
    Miss Lavendar pretends
    things just like we do.
[10:51] Anne
    I suppose she wants to talk
    with you because of that.
[10:55] Paul
    Does she really? That sounds like fun.
[11:05] Lavendar
    Welcome.
[11:07] Anne
    And this is Miss Lavendar.
[11:10] Paul
    Good day.
[11:12] Lavendar
    Good day to you, too.
[11:20] Lavendar
    You... You are very like your father.
[11:23] Paul
    Everybody says I'm a
    chip off the old block.
[11:26] Paul
    Do you know Father?
[11:29] Lavendar
    I did. A long time ago.
[11:32] Anne
    I couldn't begin to imagine
[11:34] Anne
    what pain this meeting
    would cause Miss Lavendar.
[11:51] Anne
    Then Miss Lavendar and Paul
    took to each other in no time.
[11:56] Diana
    I knew they would.
[11:58] Anne
    I also learned where
    Echo Lodge got its name.
[12:09] (Flashback) Lavendar
    Charlotta the Fourth and I often sit out
    here and amuse ourselves with echoes.
[12:16] (Flashback) Paul
    Hello!
[12:21] (Flashback) Charlotta
    Well done, sir.
[12:22] (Flashback) Anne
    That was wonderful, Paul.
[12:25] Anne
    And as we were going, Paul said to
    Miss Lavendar, "You may kiss me if you like."
[12:32] Anne
    A goodbye kiss, of course.
[12:37] (Flashback) Lavendar
    How did you know I wanted to kiss you?
[12:41] (Flashback) Paul
    Because you looked at me just
    as my little mother used to do.
[12:48] (Flashback) Paul
    I think I'd like to have you for a particular
    friend of mine, if you don't object.
[12:54] (Flashback) Lavendar
    I... I don't think I shall object.
[12:58] (Flashback) Paul
    I like Miss Lavendar.
[13:02] (Flashback) Paul
    I like the way she looked at me,
[13:05] (Flashback) Paul
    and I like her stone house,
    and I like Charlotta the Fourth.
[13:10] Anne
    I didn't know what to say to him.
[13:15] Diana
    Who knows how this story will end?
[13:19] Diana
    Anne, I'm going to ask
    you a serious question.
[13:21] Diana
    Do you care anything for Gilbert?
[13:24] Anne
    Ever so much as a friend
[13:26] Anne
    and not a bit in the way you mean.
[13:31] Anne
    You know what my ideal is, Diana.
[13:35] Diana
    Tall and slender, with dignified features
    and melancholy, mysterious eyes.
[13:42] Anne
    And a soft, enchanting voice.
[13:46] Anne
    I would marry a man like that
    if one presented himself.
[13:50] Diana
    But people's ideals change sometimes.
[13:52] Anne
    True. Fred Wright doesn't fulfill yours.
[13:58] Anne
    But mine won't.
[14:01] Diana
    What if you never meet a man who meets it?
[14:06] Anne
    Then...
[14:08] Lavendar
    Real life won't let you stay miserable.
[14:12] Anne
    Then I shall die an old maid.
[14:15] Anne
    I daresay it isn't the
    hardest death by any means.
[14:19] Diana
    Never fear, Anne.
    You'll meet the right man for you.
[14:24] Anne
    Wouldn't that be something.
[14:35] Paul
    I can't blow the horn half as
    well as Charlotta the Fourth.
[14:38] Charlotta
    No, sir. You blew very well
    for your first time, sir.
[14:42] Lavendar
    Why, Paul, you've grown.
[14:45] Paul
    I plan to eat heartily and keep
    growing till I'm as tall as Father.
[14:49] Paul
    He is six feet, you know.
[14:52] Lavendar
    Yes, I do know.
[15:02] Anne
    What is the matter, Charlotta?
[15:05] Charlotta
    Miss Lavendar isn't well,
    Miss Shirley, ma'am.
[15:10] Charlotta
    Not since that day you and Paul
    were here together before.
[15:16] Charlotta
    Ever since then I've noticed her
    acting tired and lonesome like.
[15:18] Charlotta
    She never pretends company's coming,
     nor fixes up for it, nor nothing, ma'am.
[15:23] Paul
    Miss Lavendar, why do you
    look at me like that?
[15:27] Lavendar
    Do forgive me.
[15:28] Lavendar
    You do put me in mind of
    somebody I knew long ago.
[15:33] Paul
    When you were young?
[15:37] Lavendar
    Yes, when I was young.
    Do I seem very old to you, Paul?
[15:41] Paul
    Do you know, I can't make
    up my mind about that.
[15:44] Paul
    Your hair looks old.
[15:46] Paul
    But your eyes are as young as my
    beautiful teacher's when you laugh.
[15:52] Paul
    I tell you what, Miss Lavendar,
    I think you would make a splendid mother.
[15:58] Lavendar
    What makes you say that?
[16:03] Paul
    You have just the right look in your eyes!
    The look my little mother always had!
[16:18] Anne
    Do you think I ought never to have
    taken Paul to see Miss Lavendar?
[16:23] Marilla
    It's too late for second thoughts now.
[16:25] Marilla
    And wasn't it Lavendar who told
    you she wanted to meet him?
[16:29] Anne
    Well, yes, she did say that.
[16:32] Anne
    There must be some way to lift
    Miss Lavendar's spirits.
[16:48] Tailor A
    Good day.
[16:54] Lavendar
    What a frivolous person I must be,
    that a new dress should exhilarate me so.
[17:08] Anne
    It isn't like Paul to miss
    school two days running.
[17:16] Anne
    I know he lives around here.
[17:22] Paul
    Oh, Miss Shirley!
[17:25] Anne
    Hello, Paul.
[17:27] Paul
    Teacher, father is here from America.
[17:30] Paul
    Father, this is Miss Shirley, my teacher!
[17:35] Anne
    Here is Paul's father
[17:38] Anne
    and Miss Lavendar's prince.
[17:42] Stephen
    Paul's letters have been so
    full of you, Miss Shirley,
[17:46] Stephen
    that I feel as if I were pretty
    well acquainted with you already.
[17:50] Stephen
    I want to thank you for what
    you have done for Paul.
[17:56] Stephen
    I think that your influence
    has been just what he needed.
[18:03] Stephen
    Paul, would would you ask your
    grandmother to make tea?
[18:09] Paul
    Grandma!
[18:11] Stephen
    In Paul's letters he spoke of going
    with you to visit Echo Lodge.
[18:16] Anne
    Yes, he did.
[18:17] Stephen
    Do you know her well?
[18:20] Anne
    Yes, indeed, she is a *very 
    *dear friend of mine.
[18:23] Stephen
    I wonder how much you know.
[18:26] Stephen
    About what passed between us.
[18:30] Anne
    I know all about it.
[18:34] Stephen
    I see.
[18:38] Lavendar
    Stephen Irving is home, isn't he?
[18:41] Anne
    How did you know? Who told you?
[18:43] Lavendar
    Nobody. I knew that must be it,
    just from the way you spoke.
[18:48] Anne
    He wants to come and see you.
    May I send him word that he may?
[18:55] Lavendar
    Yes, of course. There is no
    reason why he shouldn't.
[19:02] Lavendar
    He is only coming as any old friend might.
[19:05] Anne
    Mr. Irving loves Miss Lavendar still.
[19:09] Anne
    I just know he does.
[19:12] Anne
    And Miss Lavendar feels the same.
[19:25] Stephen
    There is nothing changed about this house
    or garden since twenty-five years ago.
[19:37] Charlotta
    Please wait, sir. Miss Lavendar
    will be with you shortly, sir.
[20:05] Lavendar
    Look at me. I'm a white-haired old maid.
[20:14] Charlotta
    Do you think that Mr. Irving
    will marry Miss Lavendar?
[20:19] Anne
    I wonder that myself.
[20:21] Charlotta
    I've been awful worried, thinking what on
    earth she'd do when I get to be sixteen
[20:26] Charlotta
    and have to go away and
    leave her on her own.
[20:30] Anne
    I think we've cause for hope.
[20:33] Charlotta
    If he's going away this early,
[20:38] Charlotta
    there's nothing into it and never will be.
[20:42] Anne
    Look, Charlotta.
[20:47] Charlotta
    Oh, Miss Shirley, ma'am!
[20:50] Charlotta
    He must have proposed to her!
[20:57] Anne
    I'm not a prophetess,
    but I'm going to make a prediction.
[21:03] Anne
    There'll be a wedding in this old stone
    house before the maple leaves are red.
[21:16] Anne
    Do you want that translated
    into prose, Charlotta?
[21:20] Charlotta
    No, I can understand that.
[21:23] Charlotta
    Why, you're crying! What for?
[21:26] Anne
    Oh, I suppose...
[21:28] Anne
    because it's all so beautiful...
    and storybookish... and romantic...
[21:35] Anne
    and sad.
[21:44] Paul
    What a wonderfully nice
    person Miss Lavendar is.
[21:48] Paul
    I think you and she would have
    been friends if you had ever met.
[21:53] Paul
    And you know, Mother,
[21:56] Paul
    I'll always, always love you.
SIGN    Next Time
SIGN    I'll Come from the 
    Ends of the Earth
    If Necessary