19 - I’ll Walk the Road to Heaven From Here

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[00:01] Anne
    The summer of my first year at Redmond,
[00:03] Anne
    after receiving letters that my
    parents wrote in days gone by,
[00:06] Anne
    I returned to Avonlea with a full heart.
[00:10] Anne
    I have been wondering if I could write a
    short story good enough to be published.
[00:15] Diana
    Why, of course you could!
[00:16] Diana
    You used to write perfectly thrilling
    stories years ago in our old Story Club.
[00:21] Anne
    One of the junior girls at Redmond
    wrote a story last winter,
[00:24] Anne
    and it was published in the Canadian Woman.
[00:27] Anne
    I really do think I could
    write one at least as good.
[00:31] Diana
    I'm subscribed to that magazine!
[00:33] Anne
    I might try one of the
    bigger magazines first.
[00:37] Anne
    It all depends on what
    kind of a story I write.
[00:42] Anne
    Say, where is old Mr. Sloane?
[00:45] Anne
    I can't seem to spot Mr. Cotton, either.
[00:48] Marilla
    Well, as to that...
[00:50] Anne
    You don't mean... they've passed on?
[00:53] Lynde
    Old Sloane had his whiskers
    trimmed neat as anything.
[00:57] Lynde
    I thought at first it was
    somebody else in his casket.
[01:00] Davy
    Say, why do grown-ups get to talk
    when it's wrong for children to do it?
[01:04] Davy
    I want to know.
[01:06] Anne
    Well, I don't suppose age
    has anything to do with it.
[01:10] Dora
    Oh, here comes the bride.
[01:14] Anne
    Billy Andrews,
[01:16] Anne
    the coward who got his
    sister to propose for him.
[01:19] Anne
    I'm glad to see he's made a good match.
[01:23] Davy
    Anne, there's the minister who rode the pig!
[01:33] Anne
    Is that...
[01:37] Anne
    Ruby?
[01:44] Anne
    Has Ruby injured herself?
[01:46] Marilla
    She won't live to see fall.
[01:49] Marilla
    Everybody knows it except
    herself and her family.
[01:53] Marilla
    And her so young.
[01:55] Marilla
    She's been telling Diana how she'd like
    to talk with you when you got back.
[02:02] Anne
    I couldn't believe it.
[02:04] Anne
    Brilliant, merry Ruby!
[02:06] Anne
    How could the flame of her life
    be guttering out?
SIGN    Chapter 19
SIGN    I'll Walk the Road
    to Heaven
    From Here
[03:47] Ruby
    I've been dying to see you, Anne.
[03:49] Anne
    Yes, Ruby, so have I.
[03:51] Ruby
    We're having a little get-together
    here tomorrow.
[03:54] Ruby
    I do so want you to come, Anne.
[03:56] Ruby
    You must tell me about Redmond.
[03:58] Anne
    Of course. I'll be certain to come.
[04:02] Ruby
    You must come!
[04:03] Anne
    I will.
[04:05] Diana
    Ruby's been wanting to see
    you for a long while.
[04:08] Diana
    I really couldn't bring
    myself to go see her alone.
[04:20] Lynde
    They've a bitter time in store for them.
[04:23] Marilla
    We can do nothing now but watch.
[04:30] Diana
    Look!
[04:31] Diana
    It's like an island
    floating in a golden sea.
[04:34] Anne
    If we could sail to it in the moonshine,
    how nice it would be.
[04:39] Anne
    Do you think we could find
    all our yesterdays there?
[04:44] Diana
    Anne, you make me feel as if we were old
    women with everything in life behind us.
[04:52] Diana
    What is your story to be about?
[04:55] Anne
    I don't know yet.
[04:57] Anne
    The only thing I've settled
    on is the heroine's name.
[05:00] Anne
    It is to be Averil Lester.
[05:02] Diana
    Averil?
[05:03] Anne
    I'd like it to end unhappily, because
    that would be so much more romantic.
[05:06] Anne
    But I understand editors have a
    prejudice against sad endings.
[05:10] Anne
    "Nobody but a genius should try
    to write an unhappy ending."
[05:14] Anne
    And I'm anything but a genius.
[05:17] Diana
    I like happy endings best.
[05:19] Anne
    But you like to cry over stories?
[05:23] Diana
    Oh, yes, in the middle of them.
[05:25] Diana
    But I like everything to come right at last.
[05:37] Anne
    I don't know anyone here.
[05:39] Diana
    Where can Ruby be?
[05:41] Ruby
    Here I am!
[05:43] Ruby
    Oh, Diana. You've come, too.
[05:47] Diana
    Go on.
[05:48] Anne
    What will you do?
[05:50] Diana
    I'll go get something to drink.
[05:53] Ruby
    I'm going to teach in White Sands
    in the fall, you know.
[05:56] Ruby
    There's so much to prepare!
[05:59] Ruby
    I've a blue silk to make up yet.
[06:03] Ruby
    How do you like my hat?
[06:04] Ruby
    Too bright, do you think?
[06:06] Anne
    It suits you wonderfully.
[06:09] Ruby
    I'm so glad you came today.
[06:11] Ruby
    I'll be away Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
[06:14] Ruby
    There's a concert at Carmody
    and a party at White Sands.
[06:19] Ruby
    Herb Spencer's going to take me.
[06:21] Anne
    Herb?
[06:23] Ruby
    Did you think I was engaged to
    the Spencervale schoolmaster?
[06:27] Ruby
    That was only a rumor.
[06:29] Ruby
    I don't care a bit about
    the boys downstairs, either.
[06:32] Ruby
    They just work themselves up.
[06:34] Ruby
    Herb is Mr. Right..
[06:37] Anne
    I see.
[06:38] Anne
    You know, Ruby, I heard that
    you've been poorly lately.
[06:44] Ruby
    Why, I'm perfectly well!
[06:47] Ruby
    That congestion last winter
    pulled me down a little.
[06:51] Ruby
    But just see my color.
[06:52] Anne
    I see. That's good, then.
[06:56] Anne
    Now, I'd really better be going.
[06:59] Ruby
    What? Already?
[07:01] Ruby
    Thank you for today.
[07:03] Ruby
    I wanted to have a nice good talk with you.
[07:06] Ruby
    You and I were always
    good chums, weren't we?
[07:09] Anne
    Yes, we were.
[07:11] Ruby
    Come alone next time.
[07:13] Ruby
    When can I expect you?
[07:16] Diana
    Anne!
[07:17] Diana
    Anne, wait!
[07:19] Diana
    Anne!
[07:22] Anne
    Ruby's arms were so thin that I...
[07:25] Anne
    I felt I couldn't breathe.
[07:28] Diana
    Anne...
[07:31] Anne
    What shall I do, Diana?
[07:42] Harrison
    I wondered who it could be at this hour.
[07:44] Anne
    Mr. Harrison, it's been far too long.
[07:47] Harrison
    Home for the summer, are you?
[07:49] Anne
    Yes. Mrs. Lynde is baking pies
    tomorrow. I'll bring you one.
[07:53] Harrison
    No pie will convince me
    to give to the church.
[07:56] Diana
    Goodness!
[07:58] Diana
    He wouldn't give to the A.V.I.S.,
    and he won't come to church.
[08:01] Diana
    When did you make friends
    with this odd fellow, Anne?
[08:06] (Flashback) Harrison
    So I do, but my approval doesn't
    go as deep as my pocket.
[08:09] (Flashback) Ginger
    Redheaded snippet! Redheaded snippet!
[08:12] (Flashback) Harrison
    S-Stop that, you!
[08:14] Anne
    I know I was incensed at the time,
    but look how painting the hall turned out.
[08:21] Anne
    I've come to think that maybe
    Mr. Harrison had the right of it.
[08:25] Diana
    That was only a coincidence.
[08:28] Anne
    I suppose.
[08:29] Anne
    But he doesn't lie or flatter,
[08:32] Anne
    so when I finish my story, I'll want
    you and Mr. Harrison to read it.
[08:36] Diana
    What does Mr. Harrison know about stories?
[08:42] Lynde
    How was Ruby?
[08:45] Anne
    She seemed better than I'd feared.
[08:47] Marilla
    What, done already?
[08:49] Anne
    Yes. College students have so much to do.
[08:53] Lynde
    I'll bring you tea and cookies later.
[08:57] Anne
    Thank you.
[08:58] Davy
    Mrs. Lynde may be bossy, but at least
    she's not stingy with her cookies.
[09:04] Lynde
    I can hear you.
[09:14] (Flashback) Ruby
    When can I expect you?
[09:17] (Flashback) Diana
    I like happy endings best.
[09:20] Anne
    Averil Lester,
[09:23] Anne
    let me write your story.
[09:27] Anne
    I had made up my mind to write a story,
[09:30] Anne
    and although I hadn't planned it to,
    that summer's goal sustained me.
[09:43] Anne
    I visited Ruby nearly every day
    and spent the evenings with her.
[09:50] Ruby
    My father thinks it better that
    I shouldn't teach till New Year's.
[09:56] Anne
    I agree with him.
[09:58] Ruby
    Really!
[09:59] Ruby
    I'll wear my new dress
    to some party or other.
[10:02] Ruby
    The boys will fuss again, and they're
    dreadfully jealous of Herb already.
[10:14] Anne
    When I got home from visiting Ruby,
    I threw myself into the world of stories.
[10:20] Anne
    Averil is descended from a noble
    family fallen on hard times.
[10:23] Anne
    The hero, Perceval, is the heir to
    a newly minted business empire.
[10:28] Anne
    And Maurice, who persecutes
    Averil at every opportunity,
[10:32] Anne
    is a parvenu buoyed by
    political instability.
[10:37] Ruby
    At Christmas, I thought the Spencervale
    schoolmaster was the man for me.
[10:44] Ruby
    But I was wrong.
[10:46] Ruby
    He nearly went insane
    when I turned him down—
[10:50] Anne
    Ruby?!
[10:51] Anne
    I'll get you some water.
[10:52] Ruby
    Don't go!
[10:53] Ruby
    I'm fine. So stay here.
[10:56] Ruby
    I'll be all right in a moment.
[10:59] Anne
    Ruby hasn't got much longer.
[11:02] Anne
    We should have more important
    things to talk about.
[11:06] Anne
    The meaning of life, her goals...
    words to remember her by.
[11:09] Diana
    But that's Ruby all over.
[11:12] Diana
    She never did talk about
    anything except boys.
[11:16] Diana
    As long as she's boasting about her
    beaus, there's nothing to fear.
[11:22] Ruby
    Herb Spencer is the only one I like.
[11:28] Ruby
    I've come to see that we're
    meant for each other.
[11:31] Ruby
    I've gotten engaged to him.
[11:34] Ruby
    We're to be married in the new year.
[11:37] Ruby
    You must come to the wedding.
[11:38] Anne
    O-Of course.
[11:39] Ruby
    I'll have so much to do.
[11:44] Ruby
    Look, Anne.
[11:45] Ruby
    They hardly ever come into the yard.
[11:50] Ruby
    Are they brothers, do you think?
[11:54] Ruby
    Or maybe...
[12:06] Marilla
    Anne.
[12:08] Marilla
    Have you been getting enough sleep?
[12:10] Anne
    Yes.
[12:11] Marilla
    Every time you go to see Ruby,
     you come home looking tired out.
[12:15] Marilla
    I don't see why you can't stop.
[12:18] Anne
    I feel as if she's struggling
    with an invisible foe,
[12:22] Anne
    trying to push it back with such
    feeble resistance as she has.
[12:25] Anne
    I can only watch her,
[12:28] Anne
    but even so, someone must.
[12:41] Diana
    It's so lovely how Averil and
    Perceval marry in the end.
[12:44] Anne
    You mean it?!
[12:46] Diana
    Only...
[12:46] Anne
    O-Only what?
[12:48] Diana
    Why did you kill Maurice?
[12:51] Anne
    He was the villain.
[12:53] Anne
    If I had let him live, he'd have
    gone on persecuting Perceval.
[12:56] Diana
    But that's what I like about him.
[12:58] Diana
    Well, anyway, it's a perfectly
    elegant story, Anne,
[13:03] Diana
    and will make you famous,
    of that I'm sure.
[13:06] Harrison
    It's shaped up some.
[13:08] Anne
    I did as you said and cut all the flowery
    passages with no bearing on the plot.
[13:14] Harrison
    Still...
[13:16] Anne
    Still what?
[13:17] Harrison
    I don't see why Maurice didn't get her.
[13:20] Anne
    Maurice was the villain. I don't see why
    everyone likes him better than Perceval.
[13:26] Harrison
    Perceval is too good. He's aggravating.
[13:31] Harrison
    Listen, stories are all make-believe.
[13:35] Harrison
    So you've got to make your readers
    believe that they could really happen.
[13:41] Harrison
    But your folks ain't like
    real folks anywhere.
[13:45] Diana
    What will you do?
[13:47] Diana
    Fix it up like Mr. Harrison said?
[13:51] Diana
    Of course not. It is your story, Anne.
[13:54] Diana
    I just know it will be a success.
[13:56] Anne
    I sent "Averil's Atonement" to the
    biggest of the "big" Yankee magazines.
[14:03] Anne
    But two weeks later...
[14:05] Diana
    I never thought much of
    that magazine, anyway!
[14:09] Diana
    Don't be discouraged, Anne.
    Send it to the Canadian Woman.
[14:13] Diana
    Remember how Mrs. Morgan's
    stories came back.
[14:18] Diana
    They can't have read it at all!
[14:21] Diana
    See if I ever read the Canadian Woman again!
[14:24] Anne
    It was just a silly idea anyhow.
[14:27] Anne
    I'll focus my energies on teaching
    after I graduate from Redmond.
[14:31] Anne
    This is the end of my literary ambitions.
[14:36] Diana
    Anne, could you see your way to copying
    part of "Averil's Atonement" for me?
[14:42] Anne
    Certainly, if you like.
[14:52] Ruby
    Anne, would you lend me a hand?
[14:55] Ruby
    I want to send invitations to my next party,
[14:59] Ruby
    but they won't go into the envelopes right.
[15:06] Anne
    You'd better rest!
[15:08] Anne
    Come on.
[15:10] Ruby
    I won't go with you.
[15:14] Anne
    Ruby?
[15:16] Ruby
    Go away.
[15:19] Ruby
    Leave me be.
[15:21] Ruby
    Leave me be!
[15:25] Anne
    Ruby?
[15:27] Anne
    Ruby! Ruby!
[15:29] Doctor
    The fever has confused her, I'm afraid.
[15:31] Mrs. Gillis
    My daughter is fine.
    There's nothing the matter with her.
[15:38] Gilbert
    Anne!
[15:41] Marilla
    Promise me you won't go again!
[15:44] Marilla
    What if you catch consumption
    and end up like poor Ruby?
[15:50] Marilla
    I can't bear the thought!
[15:52] Anne
    You needn't worry, Marilla.
[15:55] Anne
    I won't be seeing Ruby anymore.
[16:36] Anne
    Hello, Mr. Harrison.
[16:41] Harrison
    Is that so?
[16:43] Anne
    I've given it up completely.
[16:45] Anne
    I feel refreshed, if anything.
[16:48] Anne
    To think that writing stories
    was such a weight on my mind!
[16:52] Harrison
    I wouldn't give up altogether.
[16:57] Harrison
    I'd write a story once in a while, Anne.
[17:02] Anne
    I don't think I will.
[17:03] Anne
    Excuse me.
[17:06] Anne
    How can he say that when he
    came down so hard on it?
[17:09] Anne
    I've had enough. I've suffered enough hurt.
[17:15] Anne
    "Hurt"?
[17:22] Anne
    What does it matter?
[17:25] Anne
    Ruby...
[17:26] Anne
    Ruby is...
[17:44] Anne
    Ruby, I...
[17:46] Ruby
    Look.
[17:50] Ruby
    How ghostly it looks.
[17:54] Ruby
    It won't be long now before
    I'll be lying over there.
[17:57] Anne
    Ruby? What are you saying?
[17:59] Ruby
    You know it's so, don't you?
[18:02] Ruby
    I know it—I've known it all summer,
[18:05] Ruby
    though I wouldn't give in.
[18:08] Ruby
    I'm just... afraid.
[18:11] Ruby
    I'm not afraid but that I'll go to heaven.
[18:14] Ruby
    Heaven must be very beautiful,
    of course, the Bible says so.
[18:20] Ruby
    But, Anne, it won't be
    what I've been used to.
[18:25] Ruby
    And I'll have to go there... all alone.
[18:30] Anne
    Oh, please, give me...
[18:33] Anne
    Give me the words to help
    Ruby, even a little,
[18:37] Anne
    wise people and elders of Avonlea,
    of Prince Edward Island, of heaven!
[18:45] Anne
    I think perhaps... life in heaven
    can't be so different from here.
[18:51] Anne
    I believe we'll just go on living,
    a good deal as we live here—
[18:56] Anne
    and be ourselves just the same.
[19:00] Anne
    Only it will be easier to be good
    and to—follow the highest.
[19:07] Anne
    Don't be afraid, Ruby.
[19:09] Ruby
    I can't help it.
[19:11] Ruby
    I just can't.
[19:14] Ruby
    Even if what you say about heaven is true,
    I've never been. I've never seen it.
[19:22] Ruby
    It may be only that imagination of yours!
[19:27] Ruby
    It won't be just the same! It can't be!
[19:34] Ruby
    I want to live.
[19:38] Ruby
    I want to live like other girls.
[19:40] Ruby
    To be married and have little children.
[19:45] Ruby
    And then poor Herb.
[19:47] Ruby
    He loves me,
[19:50] Ruby
    and I... I love him.
[20:11] Ruby
    I'm glad I've told you this, Anne.
[20:14] Ruby
    I've wanted to all summer.
[20:18] Ruby
    But I couldn't.
[20:20] Ruby
    It seemed as if it would make death
    so sure if I said I was going to die.
[20:27] Ruby
    I'll try.
[20:29] Ruby
    I'll think over what you have said,
    and try to believe it.
[20:33] Anne
    Good. I know you can.
[20:36] Ruby
    Thank you. For all you've ever done for me.
[20:39] Ruby
    I've always liked you best of all my friends.
[20:45] Ruby
    You'll come up soon again.
[20:47] Anne
    Y-Yes, very soon.
[20:50] Anne
    I promise.
[20:54] Ruby
    It's all right.
[20:56] Ruby
    Nothing seems quite so dreadful now.
[21:19] Davy
    Ruby Gillis was a great girl to laugh.
[21:23] Davy
    Will she laugh as much in heaven?
[21:26] Dora
    I hope heaven is like Avonlea.
[21:31] Anne
    Yes, so do I.
[21:34] Anne
    I think she will laugh.
[21:36] Anne
    I think...
[21:39] Anne
    she's laughing now.
[23:56] Sign
    Next Time
[23:56] Sign
    My World Has
    Tumbled Into Pieces