16 - It’s Nicer Not to Know

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[00:02] Anne
    It has been a summer of
    marvelous developments.
[00:06] Anne
    Miss Lavendar's wedding.
[00:09] Anne
    Diana's engagement.
[00:12] Anne
    And as for myself,
[00:14] Anne
    I will be going to Redmond College.
[00:31] Anne
    It's from Priscilla Grant.
[00:33] Anne
    She is going to Redmond, too.
[00:36] Anne
    We're to board together.
[00:39] Gilbert
    Is that so?
[00:41] Anne
    I can face all the professors in one
    fell phalanx with Priscilla by my side.
[00:47] Gilbert
    I'm glad to hear it.
[00:48] Gilbert
    I think we'll like Kingsport.
[00:52] Gilbert
    It's a nice old burg, they tell me, and
    has the finest natural park in the world.
[00:57] Anne
    I can hardly wait.
[00:59] Gilbert
    Neither can I.
[01:01] Anne
    But will it be more beautiful than this?
[01:06] Anne
    Can it be more beautiful than this?
[01:10] Gilbert
    I wonder.
[01:27] Gilbert
    You are very quiet, Anne.
[01:31] Gilbert
    Anne?
[01:32] Anne
    I'm afraid to speak or move for
    fear all this wonderful beauty
[01:37] Anne
    will vanish just like a broken silence.
[01:46] Gilbert
    Anne...
[01:50] Anne
    I must go home.
[01:56] Anne
    Our friendship will be spoiled if
    he goes on with this nonsense.
[02:03] Davy
    My friend says his mother says you're
    going to college to see if you can catch a man.
[02:11] Davy
    Are you, Anne?
[02:12] Anne
    No, I'm not.
[02:14] Anne
    I'm going to study and grow
    and learn about many things.
[02:18] Davy
    But if you did want to catch a man,
     how would you go about it?
[02:24] Davy
    I want to know.
[02:26] Anne
    It's time you went to bed, Davy-boy.
SIGN    Chapter 16
SIGN    It's Nicer Not to Know
[04:06] Fred
    Allow me to present tokens of
    our respect to Anne and Gilbert
[04:10] Fred
    as founders of the Avonlea
    Village Improvement Society.
[04:14] Josie; Jane; Ruby
    Best of luck.
[04:16] Fred
    We will carry on the Society,
    so pursue your studies without fear.
[04:23] Fred
    Congratulations on going off to college.
[04:25] Diana; Jane
    Congratulations!
[04:26] Josie; Moody
    Take care!
[04:29] AVIS Member A; AVIS Member B
    Good luck at Redmond.
[04:30] AVIS Member C
    Congratulations.
[04:38] Gilbert
    Isn't it a fine night?
[04:40] Gilbert
    It was nice of them to go through all
    that trouble for us, don't you think?
[04:45] Anne
    Yes, it was.
[04:46] Anne
    What wonderful friends they are.
[04:48] Gilbert
    Anne...
[04:49] Gilbert
    I'm sorry I surprised you last night.
[04:51] Gilbert
    If you don't mind,
    I wanted to talk about our—
[04:54] Anne
    Let's not!
[04:55] Anne
    I don't want to hear that sort of talk now.
[05:06] Ruby
    Gilbert! Won't you walk home with me?
[05:08] Gilbert
    Oh, of course.
[05:11] Gilbert
    I'd be happy to escort you.
[05:13] Ruby
    Oh, good!
[05:15] Charlie
    Shall I see you home, Anne?
[05:19] Charlie
    It's getting late. We'd best get going.
[05:22] Charlie
    Come on!
[05:23] Anne
    R-Right.
[05:27] Charlie
    Wasn't today a jolly good time?
[05:29] Anne
    Yes, I suppose.
[05:31] Charlie
    I hope we'll stay friends
    once you go to Redmond.
[05:34] Anne
    Yes, I suppose.
[05:35] (Flashback) Anne
    I don't want to hear that sort of talk now.
[05:41] Charlie
    What did they give you as a present?
[05:44] Anne
    Yes, I suppose.
[05:47] Marilla
    Yes?
[05:49] Woman A
    Good morning, Marilla.
    I've come to say goodbye to Anne.
[05:53] Woman A
    I cannot for the life of me see what
    a woman needs with so much education.
[06:00] Woman A
    Is it too late to reconsider?
[06:03] Anne
    Well...
[06:07] Woman B
    Hello. Is Anne in?
[06:10] Woman B
    It must cost an awful lot to
    put in four years at Redmond.
[06:14] Woman B
    That can't be easy on Marilla.
[06:18] Anne
    No.
[06:21] Woman C
    Where is Anne?
[06:23] Woman C
    I can't help worrying
[06:25] Woman C
    if you won't come back from Kingsport
[06:28] Woman C
    thinking you know it all and looking down
    on everything and everybody in Avonlea.
[06:34] Woman C
    Don't misunderstand me.
[06:36] Woman C
    It's your own good I'm thinking of.
[06:46] Marilla
    What are you daydreaming for?
[06:48] Marilla
    You leave tomorrow.
    Will your things be packed in time?
[06:52] Anne
    I'm packing them now.
[06:56] Marilla
    Honestly.
[06:58] (Flashback) Woman A
    I cannot for the life of me see what
    a woman needs with so much education.
[07:15] Anne
    They let me see they thought I was crazy
[07:19] Anne
    going to Redmond and trying to take a B.A.,
[07:24] Anne
    and ever since,
     I've been wondering if I am.
[07:30] Gilbert
    You surely don't care for what they said.
[07:32] Gilbert
    You know exactly how narrow
    their outlook on life is,
[07:36] Gilbert
    excellent creatures though they are.
[07:38] Anne
    Oh, I know.
[07:42] Gilbert
    You are the first Avonlea girl
    who has ever gone to college;
[07:46] Gilbert
    and you know that all pioneers
    have their struggles.
[07:53] Gilbert
    Come, forget it all and take a walk with me.
[07:58] Gilbert
    There's something I want to show you.
[08:23] Gilbert
    Ah, here it is!
[08:36] Anne
    An apple tree!
[08:38] Anne
    And away back here!
[08:40] Gilbert
    I was here one day last spring and
    found it, all white with blossom.
[08:45] Gilbert
    So I resolved I'd come again in the
    fall and see if it had been apples.
[08:49] Anne
    I suppose it sprang years ago
    from some chance-sown seed.
[08:54] Anne
    And how it has grown and flourished and
    held its own here all alone among aliens,
[08:58] Anne
    the brave determined thing!
[09:02] Gilbert
    Here's a fallen tree with a cushion of moss.
    It will serve for a woodland throne.
[09:07] Gilbert
    Sit down, Anne.
[09:16] Gilbert
    Delicious!
[09:17] Anne
    The fatal apple of Eden couldn't
    have had a rarer flavor.
[09:25] Gilbert
    That may be the best apple I've ever eaten.
[09:29] Gilbert
    Do you feel better now?
[09:31] Anne
    Yes.
[09:33] Anne
    Those apples have been as
    manna to a hungry soul.
[09:39] Anne
    I feel that I shall love Redmond and
    have a splendid four years there.
[09:47] Gilbert
    And after those four years—what?
[09:52] Anne
    Oh, there's another bend
    in the road at their end.
[09:56] Anne
    I've no idea what may be around it—
    I don't want to have.
[10:02] Anne
    It's nicer not to know.
[10:15] Anne
    If Gilbert were always
    as he has been this evening,
[10:18] Anne
    how nice and simple
    everything would be.
[10:22] Gilbert
    I wonder if I can ever
    make her care for me.
[10:37] Lynde
    Be careful of your health,
    whatever you do.
[10:41] Anne
    Thank you, Mrs. Lynde.
    And the same to you.
[10:45] Marilla
    I suppose we'll hear from you
    once you've got settled?
[10:50] Anne
    I'll write at once.
[10:53] Anne
    Dora.
[10:54] Dora
    When will we see you again, Anne?
[10:57] Anne
    I'll come home for Christmas.
[11:00] Dora
    You must.
[11:01] Anne
    Play nice with Davy.
[11:03] Dora
    I will.
[11:15] Anne
    Let me give you a
    kiss goodbye, Davy-boy.
[11:19] Davy
    Uh-uh.
[11:20] Anne
    Davy...
[12:16] Anne
    So that is Kingsport!
[12:32] Anne
    Well then, we'll all meet
    at Redmond tomorrow.
[12:35] Gilbert
    Take a good night's rest.
[12:37] Charlie
    Good night.
[12:38] Anne
    Good night to you both.
[12:42] Priscilla
    Anne!
[12:47] Anne
    Prissy!
[12:51] Priscilla
    Welcome to Kingsport!
[12:53] Priscilla
    I suppose you must be tired.
[12:55] Anne
    Tired! Priscilla, don't speak of it.
[12:58] Priscilla
    Then I'll show you around
    the boardinghouse.
[13:00] Anne
    Yes.
[13:01] Priscilla
    And introduce you to our landladies.
[13:03] Anne
    Ladies?
[13:04] Hannah
    Please, come in.
[13:07] Ada
    We've been expecting you.
[13:09] Anne
    I can't get away from twins, it seems.
[13:14] Priscilla
    Your room is a front one and looks
    out on Old St. John's graveyard.
[13:19] Anne
    A graveyard?
[13:20] Anne
    That sounds gruesome.
[13:23] Priscilla
    Oh, no, it isn't.
[13:25] Priscilla
    It has "scope for imagination,"
    as you always say.
[13:33] Anne
    I suppose that very moon is looking
    down on Green Gables now.
[13:37] Anne
    But I won't think about it.
    I'm not even going to have my good cry.
[13:42] Anne
    Just now, I'll go calmly and
    sensibly to bed and to sleep.
[13:53] Priscilla
    Everybody is so fast and so lively.
[13:59] Anne
    Oh, Prissy, I feel as insignificant as the
    teeniest drop in a most enormous bucket.
[14:07] Priscilla
    Wait a while.
[14:10] Priscilla
    Then we'll be able to look as bored
    and sophisticated as any of them.
[14:16] Gilbert
    Anne!
[14:17] Priscilla
    Why, Gilbert, it's been ages!
[14:20] Gilbert
    Priscilla! I'm glad we'll
    be classmates again.
[14:22] Priscilla
    Not as glad as I am.
[14:23] Gilbert
    How is your boardinghouse?
[14:25] Anne
    Delightful.
[14:26] Priscilla
    We're on our way to register as students.
[14:29] Priscilla
    But I see you've already done that.
[14:31] Gilbert
    Yes.
[14:32] Priscilla
    In that case—
[14:33] Male Student
    Hey!
[14:34] Male Student
    Gilbert! Over here!
[14:37] Gilbert
    I'll be right there!
[14:38] Gilbert
    I'm going to eat with some
    people in our year I met.
[14:42] Gilbert
    I'll see you later.
[14:44] Priscilla
    I see he's already made friends.
[14:47] Priscilla
    He's like a duck to water.
[14:49] Priscilla
    But how he has grown up this past year.
[14:53] Anne
    What? Has he?
[14:55] Priscilla
    Don't you think he's handsomer than ever?
[15:01] Anne
    Come on, we'd better register!
[15:03] Anne
    Hurry up!
[15:04] Priscilla
    Not so fast!
[15:13] Anne
    A new school, and new people
    in the years above me.
[15:17] Anne
    I'm glad to have Priscilla with me,
[15:20] Anne
    but will we find a place of our own here?
[15:32] Priscilla
    Is she new here, too, do you
    think? She's awfully citified.
[15:37] Anne
    And awfully pretty.
[15:57] Priscilla
    Tell me, do you think
    we'll ever get on in this town?
[16:01] Anne
    I don't know.
[16:03] Anne
    But I'm thankful that none of the Avonlea
    ladies know my state of mind at present.
[16:09] Anne
    They would exult in saying,
    "I told you so."
[16:15] Priscilla
    That sounds more Anneish.
[16:19] Anne
    In a little while, we'll be acclimated
    and acquainted, and all will be well.
[16:25] Priscilla
    I certainly hope so.
[16:28] Anne
    Now, there's a place
    I'd like to go after lunch.
[16:32] Priscilla
    Where?
[16:33] Anne
    A place with "scope for imagination."
[16:39] Anne
    It's everything you said it was.
[16:41] Anne
    There are so many trees here, I can
    imagine I'm in the Avonlea woods.
[16:54] Anne
    "Here lieth the body of
    Albert Crawford, Esq.,"
[16:58] Anne
    "for many years Keeper of His
    Majesty's Ordnance at Kingsport."
[17:03] Anne
    "He was a brave officer,
    the best of husbands,"
[17:05] Anne
    "the best of fathers, the best of friends."
[17:08] Anne
    There's an epitaph for you.
[17:10] Priscilla
    Yes, it is.
[17:12] Anne
    How full such a life must
    have been of adventure!
[17:17] Anne
    What a wonder old graveyards are.
[17:19] Anne
    I shall come here often.
[17:29] Priscilla
    It's the very girl we saw
    at Redmond this morning.
[17:32] Anne
    Yes, it is.
[17:38] Anne
    Good day.
[17:39] Anne
    We wondered if we might—
[17:40] Philippa
    Oh, I want to know who you two girls are!
    I've been dying to know.
[17:44] Philippa
    I saw you at Redmond this morning.
[17:46] Philippa
    Say, wasn't it awful there?
[17:49] Philippa
    For the time, I wished I had
    stayed home and got married!
[17:54] Anne
    Married?
[17:55] Priscilla
    What a way to put it.
[17:57] Philippa
    Come, let's all sit down on this
    gravestone and get acquainted.
[18:03] Philippa
    I know we're going to adore each other.
[18:05] Philippa
    I knew it as soon as I saw
    you at Redmond this morning.
[18:09] Philippa
    I wanted so much to go right
    over and hug you both.
[18:11] Priscilla
    Why didn't you?
[18:14] Philippa
    Because I never can make up my
    mind about anything myself.
[18:17] Philippa
    Philippa Gordon simply—
[18:19] Philippa
    Oh, do call me Phil.
[18:21] Philippa
    Now, what are your handles?
[18:23] Anne
    She's Priscilla Grant.
[18:25] Priscilla
    Call me Prissy.
[18:27] Priscilla
    And she's Anne Shirley.
[18:29] Anne
    And we're from the Island.
[18:32] Philippa
    I hail from Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia.
[18:35] Anne
    Bolingbroke! Why, that is
    where I was born.
[18:38] Philippa
    Why, that makes you a
    Bluenose after all.
[18:42] Anne
    No, it doesn't. I'm Island to the core.
[18:46] Philippa
    Well, I'm glad, anyway.
[18:47] Anne
    No, I'm—
[18:48] Philippa
    It makes us kind of neighbors, doesn't it?
[18:51] Philippa
    Tell me, what do you think of my looks?
[18:54] Anne
    What?
[18:54] Philippa
    I want your honest opinion!
[18:59] Anne
    We thought this morning that you were
    the prettiest girl we saw at Redmond.
[19:06] Philippa
    I thought that myself,
[19:09] Philippa
    but I wanted someone else's
    opinion to bolster mine up.
[19:14] Philippa
    I can't decide even on my own appearance.
[19:19] Priscilla
    I don't know how you managed to make up
     your mind to come to Redmond at all.
[19:23] Philippa
    It was father who wanted me to come here.
[19:24] Philippa
    I knew if I stayed home, I'd have
    to get married. Mother wanted that.
[19:27] Philippa
    And how could I ever have made
    up my mind which man to marry?
[19:34] Anne
    Were there so many?
[19:36] Philippa
    Heaps.
[19:38] Philippa
    The boys like me awfully—they really do.
[19:41] Philippa
    But most were too young and too poor.
[19:45] Philippa
    I must marry a rich man, you know.
[19:48] Anne
    Why must you?
[19:49] Philippa
    I am very extravagant.
[19:51] Philippa
    So that narrowed it down to Alec and Alonzo.
[19:55] Philippa
    The trouble was...
[19:55] Anne
    You couldn't decide between the two of them?
[19:58] Philippa
    That's just it!
[19:59] Anne
    Didn't you—love—either of them?
[20:04] Philippa
    Goodness, no!
[20:05] Philippa
    I couldn't love anybody.
[20:09] Philippa
    Being in love makes you a
    perfect slave, I think.
[20:15] Philippa
    I haven't quite disgusted you
    with my frivolity, have I?
[20:22] Philippa
    Isn't this graveyard a sweet place?
    I'd love to be buried here.
[20:28] Philippa
    Oh, girls, look, see.
[20:31] Philippa
    It's the grave of a middy who was killed
[20:34] Philippa
    in the fight between the
    Shannon and the Chesapeake.
[20:38] Philippa
    You know, the sea battle in 1813.
[20:56] Priscilla
    What is it, Anne?
[20:58] Priscilla
    Anne?
[21:09] Philippa
    Anne Shirley.
[21:15] Philippa
    Come back!
[21:17] Philippa
    Anne Shirley!
[21:20] Philippa
    Are you all right?
[21:21] Philippa
    You were a hundred years
    away from us just now.
[21:30] Priscilla
    Well, what do you think of our new friend?
[21:34] Anne
    That's a good question.
[21:36] Anne
    I like her. There is something
    very lovable about her.
[21:40] Priscilla
    I like her, too. I'll be
    glad to see more of her.
[21:43] Anne
    Yes!
[21:44] Anne
    I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root
    into Kingsport soil this afternoon.
[21:50] Anne
    I've made a new friend and learned
    something of local history.
[21:55] Anne
    So I'll stop feeling frightened
    that there's no place for me here.
[22:00] Anne
    After all, I came by my own choice.
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