# 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**
Lad*ies?*
**[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.*
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** The Thing That Transforms
Everything Else—That's Love