# 20 - My World Has Tumbled Into Pieces
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**[00:01] Anne**
*As the summer we lost Ruby came to an end,*
**[00:04] Anne**
*I was preparing for my return to Kingsport...*
**[00:07] Harrison**
Say, Anne, been writing
any more stories lately?
**[00:13] Anne**
No.
**[00:14] Harrison**
Well, Mrs. Hiram Sloane told me
the other day that a big envelope
**[00:18] Harrison**
addressed to that baking powder company
had been dropped into the post office box.
**[00:23] Harrison**
I suspected that maybe you were
trying for the prize they'd offered
**[00:27] Harrison**
for the best story that introduced
the name of their baking powder.
**[00:32] Anne**
Indeed, no!
**[00:35] Anne**
I think it would be perfectly disgraceful
to write a story as an advertisement.
**[00:41] Diana**
Anne!
**[00:42] Diana**
There you are.
**[00:44] Diana**
Here's a letter for you.
**[00:46] Diana**
Here!
**[00:47] Diana**
I was at the office, so I
thought I'd bring it along.
**[00:51] Diana**
Do open it quick.
**[00:53] Anne**
What's come over you, Diana?
**[00:55] Diana**
I'm wild with delight. Go on, read it.
**[01:00] Anne**
"We have much pleasure in informing you"
**[01:02] Anne**
"that your charming story
'Averil's Atonement'"
**[01:06] Anne**
"has won the prize of twenty-five dollars
offered in our recent competition."
**[01:12] Anne**
"Yours very truly,
The Rollings Reliable Baking Powder Co."
**[01:17] Anne**
What?
***SIGN*** Chapter 20
***SIGN*** My World Has
Tumbled Into Pieces
**[02:54] Anne**
I don't understand.
**[02:56] Anne**
How could my story have won the prize?
**[02:59] Diana**
I sent it!
**[03:02] Diana**
Oh, I *knew* it would win!
**[03:05] Diana**
At first I thought I'd
ask you to send it in.
**[03:07] Diana**
But you had so little faith left in it.
**[03:10] Diana**
So I just decided I'd send
the copy you gave me.
**[03:14] Diana**
Why, Anne, you don't seem a bit pleased!
**[03:18] Anne**
I'm so amazed—I can't realize it.
**[03:20] Anne**
There wasn't a word in my story about...
about baking powder.
**[03:24] Diana**
Oh, *I* put that in.
**[03:26] Diana**
It was as easy as a wink.
**[03:29] Diana**
When Averil bakes the cake,
**[03:32] Diana**
I just added, "and I will never use
any baking powder except Rollings."
**[03:37] Diana**
Here!
**[03:38] Diana**
The twenty-five dollars you've won!
**[03:43] Anne**
Diana,
**[03:44] Anne**
I can't take it.
**[03:47] Anne**
It's yours by right. You sent the story in.
**[03:51] Diana**
The honor of being a friend of the
prize-winner is enough for me.
**[03:54] Diana**
I'm so glad for your sake, Anne.
**[03:57] Anne**
Oh, Diana,
**[04:00] Anne**
I think you are the sweetest and
truest friend in the world,
**[04:06] Anne**
and I assure you I appreciate
the motive of what you've done.
**[04:23] Davy**
Gilbert's here to see you, Anne.
**[04:26] Davy**
Are you well?
**[04:30] Gilbert**
Why, what is the matter?
**[04:33] Gilbert**
I came to congratulate you.
**[04:35] Anne**
Oh, Gilbert, not you.
**[04:39] Anne**
I thought you would understand.
**[04:42] Gilbert**
I must confess I can't. *What* is wrong?
**[04:45] Anne**
Everything.
**[04:46] Anne**
I loved my poor little story.
**[04:50] Anne**
What will the professors think when they
hear I've written an advertisement?
**[04:56] Anne**
And, oh, when it gets out at Redmond!
Think how I'll be teased and laughed at!
**[05:01] Gilbert**
Why worry what anyone else thinks?
**[05:06] Gilbert**
One would rather write masterpieces
of literature, no doubt.
**[05:11] Gilbert**
But, meanwhile, meals have to be
bought and board has to be paid.
**[05:16] Gilbert**
Put the prize toward tuition fees and
consider that it enhances your learning.
**[05:24] Anne**
I suppose one must face reality.
**[05:27] Anne**
But I cannot feel easy in my mind about it.
**[05:30] Gilbert**
Then will you let me read
your story sometime?
**[05:34] Anne**
Certainly. But whatever for?
**[05:36] Gilbert**
Because then I'll be able to tell whether
you wrote it as an advertisement.
**[05:40] Anne**
I'd like you to read it very much.
**[05:44] Anne**
Isn't it lovely?
**[05:45] Anne**
Do you know, I didn't notice until just now?
**[05:48] Gilbert**
This view has made my own cares pale
into insignificance more than once.
**[05:55] Anne**
Gilbert, did you really
come to congratulate me?
**[06:00] Gilbert**
Yes, of course.
**[06:02] Anne**
*He must have known I was feeling miserable.*
**[06:06] Gilbert**
* Good. She looks more*
* cheerful than I'd feared.*
**[06:09] Anne**
Thank you.
**[06:18] Gilbert**
Just think, next week we start
our second year at Redmond.
**[06:28] Philippa**
It's homier than home.
**[06:32] Anne**
It's pictures galore after all, I see.
**[06:35] Anne**
Although Miss Patty didn't seem to want
us putting more holes in her wallpaper.
**[06:40] Philippa**
We'll putty the holes
up when we leave, dear.
**[06:43] Philippa**
Now, Stella, when does
Aunt Jamesina come to live with us?
**[06:47] Stella**
Tomorrow. And she's bringing a cat.
**[06:51] Priscilla**
A cat! I adore cats!
**[06:52] Anne**
Then there will be six of
us living under one roof.
**[06:56] Philippa**
Five and one animal, you mean.
**[06:58] Priscilla**
Call it four and two animals.
**[07:08] Philippa**
Good morning, Charlie.
**[07:11] Philippa**
My, what good friends you are.
**[07:14] Anne**
Oh, stop it.
**[07:16] Gilbert**
Good morning, friendly fellow lodgers.
**[07:19] Philippa**
Good morning, Gilbert.
**[07:21] Philippa**
The living room has come
together splendidly.
**[07:24] Philippa**
You must visit.
**[07:26] Gilbert**
Of course.
**[07:31] Gilbert**
Well, I have class across the hall.
**[07:34] Priscilla**
Later, then.
**[07:35] Philippa**
Anne?
**[07:37] Philippa**
Has anything happened
between you and Gilbert?
**[07:39] Anne**
No.
**[07:41] Anne**
What?
**[07:42] Philippa**
I don't miss much in affairs of the heart.
**[07:45] Anne**
Honestly, nothing's happened!
**[07:46] Philippa**
You don't need to hide it.
**[07:59] Anne**
Goodness!
**[08:01] Anne**
You mustn't follow me.
**[08:03] Anne**
I'm sorry, but we already
have a cat coming to stay.
**[08:15] Anne**
No. Shoo.
**[08:20] Anne**
It's not a laughing matter!
**[08:23] Philippa**
That cat must have taken a
real fancy to you, Anne.
**[08:26] Priscilla**
Was he as thin as all that?
**[08:28] Stella**
You should have fed him.
**[08:31] Anne**
No. If I did that, I would have to keep him.
**[08:48] Anne**
You can't simply waltz in uninvited.
**[08:51] Priscilla**
He has evidently adopted you.
**[08:53] Philippa**
He really is emaciated.
**[08:55] Stella**
Poor creature.
**[08:56] Anne**
Well, I'll give him a square meal and
then he must return to whence he came.
**[09:16] Philippa**
He plainly means to stay.
**[09:18] Priscilla**
Something has to be done.
**[09:19] Stella**
We can't keep him.
**[09:21] Stella**
Aunt Jimsie will bring her cat with her.
**[09:24] Anne**
Yes.
**[09:26] Anne**
That's why I told him and
myself that it was not to be.
**[09:34] Anne**
Oh.
**[09:37] Anne**
Oh, I can't pretend any longer!
**[09:40] Anne**
He's my cat!
**[09:42] Anne**
His name is Rusty!
**[09:44] Philippa**
What, you've already christened him?
**[09:47] Priscilla**
How like Anne.
**[09:49] Stella**
Now you'll have to convince
Aunt Jimsie and the other cat.
**[09:55] Anne**
Yes, I'll try.
**[09:57] Anne**
Be good, Rusty.
**[10:01] Stella**
Um... Aunt Jamesina,
**[10:04] Stella**
I thought you said you
were bringing *one* cat.
**[10:07] Jamesina**
A dear friend begged me to take him.
**[10:10] Jamesina**
The stately one is the Sarah-cat.
**[10:12] Jamesina**
The meek one is my dear friend's, Joseph.
**[10:16] Jamesina**
The Sarah-cat *never* fights
and Joseph rarely.
**[10:23] Anne**
Rusty!
**[10:33] Anne**
No, Rusty!
**[10:35] Anne**
Stop that!
**[10:37] Jamesina**
It's all right. Let them fight it out.
**[10:45] Jamesina**
You see?
**[10:46] Jamesina**
They've made friends.
**[10:49] Anne**
How I admire you, Aunt Jamesina!
**[10:53] Jamesina**
But I only keep cats proper.
**[10:57] Jamesina**
You're old enough to know how to
behave if you're ever going to be.
**[11:02] Anne; Priscilla; Philippa; Stella**
Of course.
**[11:03] Jamesina**
But then again,
**[11:05] Jamesina**
as far as I am concerned, you can all
go to destruction in your own way.
**[11:23] Anne**
Gilbert.
**[11:25] Anne**
You would be very unwise.
**[11:36] Anne**
Thank you.
**[11:56] Philippa**
What a dull, interminable day it's been.
**[12:00] Anne**
But to some people, it has
been a wonderful day.
**[12:04] Anne**
And some heart has been broken.
**[12:07] Philippa**
I don't like to think of broken
hearts or anything unpleasant.
**[12:11] Anne**
Do you think you'll be able to shirk
unpleasant things all your life, Phil?
**[12:15] Philippa**
Dear me, no. Am I not up against them now?
**[12:19] Philippa**
Alec and Alonzo simply plague my life out.
**[12:23] Jamesina**
It shouldn't be hard to decide.
**[12:27] Philippa**
I was born a seesaw, Auntie, and nothing
can ever prevent me from teetering.
**[12:34] Philippa**
Oh, I'd marry Gilbert Blythe if he were rich.
**[12:39] Anne**
Gilbert and *you?*
**[12:44] Anne**
You have every right, of course.
**[12:48] Philippa**
Oh, I'm not setting out
to marry Gilbert Blythe.
**[12:54] Philippa**
Perish the thought.
**[12:56] Philippa**
I'll have to marry sometime, I suppose,
**[13:01] Philippa**
but I shall put off the
evil day as long as I can.
**[13:05] Philippa**
In any case, I'm starving *now*.
**[13:09] Anne**
I made a lemon pie this morning.
It's in the pantry.
**[13:12] Philippa**
You're a darling!
**[13:19] Philippa**
May today be a wonderful day for *you!*
**[13:26] Jamesina**
That girl is pretty and
sweet and good-hearted,
**[13:26] Philippa**
Oh, it looks scrumptious! I can't help myself!
**[13:29] Jamesina**
but do you think she is quite
right in her mind, by spells?
**[13:33] Anne**
There's nothing the matter with Phil's mind.
It's just her way of talking.
**[13:39] Anne**
It's a fine day, Rusty.
Shall we go for a walk?
**[13:56] Anne**
Rusty?
**[14:06] Anne**
Hello, Gilbert.
**[14:08] Gilbert**
Hello, Anne.
**[14:10] Anne**
Mayflowers?
**[14:11] Gilbert**
Yes.
**[14:12] Gilbert**
Don't these remind you of home
and our old school-day picnics?
**[14:18] Anne**
Oh, yes.
**[14:20] Gilbert**
I suppose you will be there
in reality in a few days?
**[14:25] Anne**
Yes, once I put the house in order.
**[14:29] Anne**
You'll be in Avonlea before I will.
**[14:32] Gilbert**
No, I shall not be in Avonlea
at all this summer.
**[14:35] Gilbert**
I've been offered a job in the *Daily News*
office and I'm going to take it.
**[14:40] Anne**
*Oh, Phil... Phil, come out this instant.*
**[14:41] Anne**
You mustn't work *too* hard.
**[14:47] Anne**
Isn't this a delightful evening?
**[14:49] Anne**
Do you know, I found a cluster of white violets
under that tree over there?
**[14:55] Anne**
I felt as if I had discovered a gold mine.
**[14:58] Anne**
Let us go and see if we can find some more.
**[15:01] Anne**
I'll call Phil and—
**[15:05] Gilbert**
Never mind Phil and the violets just now.
**[15:09] Gilbert**
There is something I want to say to you.
**[15:12] Anne**
Oh, don't say it. Don't—*please*, Gilbert.
**[15:15] Gilbert**
I must. Things can't go
on like this any longer.
**[15:20] Gilbert**
Anne, I love you.
**[15:23] Gilbert**
You know I do.
**[15:25] Gilbert**
I can't tell you how much.
**[15:28] Gilbert**
Will you promise me that
some day, you'll be my wife?
**[15:36] Anne**
I...
**[15:38] Anne**
I...
**[15:41] Anne**
I can't.
**[15:43] Anne**
Oh, Gilbert, you've spoiled everything.
**[15:55] Gilbert**
How... How do you feel about me?
**[15:59] Anne**
I do care a great deal for you as a friend.
**[16:03] Anne**
But I don't love you, Gilbert.
**[16:07] Gilbert**
But can't you give me some
hope that you will—yet?
**[16:12] Anne**
No, I can't.
**[16:14] Anne**
You must never speak of this to me again.
**[16:17] Anne**
And we *must* go on being friends.
**[16:22] Gilbert**
Friends!
**[16:24] Gilbert**
I want your love—and you tell
me I can never have that.
**[16:31] Anne**
I'm sorry.
**[16:33] Gilbert**
There have been times when
I thought you did care.
**[16:38] Gilbert**
I've deceived myself, that's all.
**[16:44] Gilbert**
Goodbye, Anne.
**[17:06] Philippa**
You are an idiot, Anne Shirley!
**[17:09] Anne**
Do you call it idiotic to refuse
to marry a man I don't love?
**[17:14] Philippa**
You don't know love when you see it.
**[17:18] Philippa**
You've tricked something out with your
imagination that you think love,
**[17:23] Philippa**
and you expect the real
thing to look like that.
**[17:26] Anne**
Phil, please go away and leave
me alone for a little while.
**[17:35] Anne**
My world has tumbled into pieces.
**[17:40] Anne**
I want to reconstruct it.
**[17:43] Philippa**
Without any Gilbert in it?
**[17:50] Anne**
A world without any Gilbert in it?!
**[17:54] Anne**
A world without any Gilbert in it?
**[17:58] Anne**
A world without...
**[18:09] Marilla**
Is that you, Rachel? That was quick.
**[18:13] Anne**
Hello, Marilla.
**[18:16] Marilla**
Anne Shirley!
**[18:18] Marilla**
I never looked for you till tomorrow night.
**[18:21] Anne**
I just got homesick all at once,
and came a day earlier.
**[18:26] Anne**
I've had such a lovely walk,
picking flowers in the twilight.
**[18:30] Anne**
Smell them.
**[18:35] Marilla**
Sit down, child. You must be real tired.
**[18:41] Anne**
I am.
**[18:43] Marilla**
How is Gilbert?
**[18:45] Marilla**
He isn't coming home this summer, I hear.
**[18:49] Anne**
He is.
**[18:53] Davy**
Anne, ain't I glad to see you!
**[18:55] Anne**
Davy!
**[18:57] Davy**
Say, Anne, I've grown
two inches since last fall.
**[19:01] Davy**
And say, Anne, see my
front tooth. It's gone.
**[19:05] Anne**
Goodness! And have you been a good boy?
**[19:08] Davy**
Yes. But say, I'm tired of being good.
**[19:12] Anne**
You'd get tired of being bad much sooner.
**[19:16] Davy**
Well, it'd be fun while
it lasted, wouldn't it?
**[19:20] Davy**
I could be sorry for it
afterwards, couldn't I?
**[19:22] Anne**
Being sorry wouldn't do away with the
consequences of being bad, Davy.
**[19:27] Marilla**
Now, stop talking nonsense
and come have your supper.
**[19:32] Davy; Dora**
All right.
**[19:34] Lynde**
You look well, Anne.
**[19:36] Dora**
Welcome home, Anne.
**[19:39] Anne**
It's good to be home.
**[19:42] Anne**
Thank you very much for having me.
**[19:44] Lavendar**
Seeing you is one of the pleasures
of coming home for the summer.
**[19:50] Anne**
I am so glad our homecomings overlapped.
**[19:53] Anne**
How you've grown, Paul.
**[19:56] Paul**
I'm thirteen now.
**[20:05] Anne**
Where has the summer gone?
**[20:09] Anne**
It doesn't seem a day since I came home
that spring evening with the violets.
**[20:16] Anne**
When I was little, I couldn't see from
one end of the summer to the other.
**[20:23] Anne**
It stretched before me
like an unending season.
**[20:31] Anne**
Now "'tis a handbreadth, 'tis a tale."
**[20:36] Lavendar**
Anne, are you and Gilbert Blythe
as good friends as you used to be?
**[20:43] Anne**
I am just as much Gilbert's
friend as ever I was.
**[20:48] Lavendar**
Have you quarreled?
**[20:51] Anne**
No; it's only that Gilbert
wants more than friendship
**[20:58] Anne**
and I can't give him more.
**[21:01] Lavendar**
Are you sure of that?
**[21:05] Lavendar**
I'm very, very sorry.
**[21:07] Anne**
I wonder why everybody seems to think
I ought to marry Gilbert Blythe.
**[21:14] Lavendar**
Because you were made and meant for
each other, Anne—that is why.
**[21:21] Lavendar**
But you are still young.
**[21:24] Lavendar**
You needn't decide on everything now.
**[21:28] Anne**
Why ever did Gilbert say such things?
**[21:32] Anne**
He must have known I would refuse.
**[21:35] Lavendar**
He probably couldn't help himself.
**[21:38] Lavendar**
That's how much he loves you.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Has the Real Prince
Come at Last...?