24 - It’s the Birthday of Our Happiness

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[00:01] Roy
    Anne,
[00:02] Roy
    would you accept my love
    and consent to marry me?
[00:17] Anne
    I can't.
[00:19] Anne
    I can't.
[00:20] Anne
    I can't marry you.
[00:25] Anne
    I can't!
[00:30] Roy
    Why can't you?
[00:31] Anne
    Because—I don't care enough for you.
[00:36] Roy
    So you've just been amusing yourself?
[00:38] Anne
    No, no, I haven't.
[00:41] Anne
    I did think I cared. Truly I did.
[00:45] Anne
    But I know now I don't.
[00:52] Roy
    You have ruined my life.
[00:56] Anne
    Forgive me.
[01:05] Roy
    You can give me no hope?
[01:16] Roy
    You are the only woman I can ever love.
[01:21] Roy
    I thank you for your friendship, at least.
[01:24] Roy
    Goodbye.
SIGN    Chapter 24
SIGN    It's the Birthday
    of Our Happiness
[03:23] Philippa
    How did it go?
[03:28] Anne
    Wait. Wait till you hear what I have to say.
[03:35] Anne
    Roy asked me to marry him.
[03:38] Anne
    And I refused.
[03:42] Philippa
    Y-You refused him?
[03:45] Anne
    Oh, Phil, don't scold me.
    You don't understand.
[03:51] Philippa
    I certainly don't understand.
[03:53] Philippa
    You've encouraged Roy in
    every way all this time,
[03:55] Philippa
    and now you tell me you've refused him.
[03:58] Philippa
    Then you've just been flirting
    scandalously with him.
[04:01] Philippa
    I couldn't have believed it of you.
[04:03] Anne
    I didn't! You don't understand!
[04:05] Philippa
    Then, why?
[04:06] Anne
    Oh, I can't explain it to you
    any more than I could to him.
[04:11] Philippa
    Well, I suppose there is no use
    in saying anything to you.
[04:14] Anne
    No, there is no need.
    I've spoiled everything.
[04:20] Anne
    Roy despises me, and you despise me,
[04:24] Anne
    and I despise myself.
[04:28] Philippa
    You poor darling.
[04:30] Philippa
    Forgive me, Anne.
[04:32] Philippa
    Just come here and let me comfort you.
[04:37] Philippa
    I've no right to scold you.
[04:40] Philippa
    Oh, why must things be so
     complicated and mixed up in real life?
[04:50] Dorothy
    Roy is feeling terribly just now.
[04:55] Dorothy
    I have to listen to his
    outpourings every day.
[05:02] Dorothy
    But he'll get over it.
[05:04] Dorothy
    He always does.
[05:07] Dorothy
    He's had to give up on love twice before.
[05:11] Dorothy
    And he got back on his feet.
[05:13] (Flashback) Roy
    You are the only woman I can ever love.
[05:18] Dorothy
    So I don't think you need worry.
[05:21] Dorothy
    I did want you for a sister, but this
    won't spoil our friendship, will it?
[05:27] Anne
    No, indeed not, Dorothy.
[05:29] Dorothy
    Oh, good! I'll write to you.
[05:32] Dorothy
    Remind me. Your family home is...
[05:34] Anne
    In Avonlea on Prince Edward Island.
[05:38] Anne
    It's called Green Gables.
[05:50] Marilla
    Anne! You're home.
[05:51] Anne
    What has happened to the
    old Snow Queen, Marilla?
[05:54] Marilla
    Oh, it was rotten at the core.
[05:58] Marilla
    It blew down in the big
    gale we had in March.
[06:02] Marilla
    That tree was there ever since
    Matthew and I were young.
[06:10] Anne
    I'll never look from the porch gable
    window again without a sense of loss.
[06:17] Anne
    Well, tell me all the Avonlea news.
[06:22] Lynde
    There isn't much news except
    what we've wrote you.
[06:27] Marilla
    Rachel, have you told Anne
    the news about Jane?
[06:31] Anne
    What's happened to Jane?
[06:33] Lynde
    Jane Andrews is going to be married
    to a Winnipeg millionaire.
[06:39] Anne
    Dear old Jane! I'm so glad.
[06:44] Anne
    She deserves the good things of life.
[06:48] Lynde
    Oh, Jane's a nice enough girl.
[06:51] Lynde
    But she isn't in the millionaire class.
[06:56] Lynde
    Her engagement ring is a
    diamond cluster so big
[06:59] Lynde
    that it looks like a plaster
    on Jane's fat paw.
[07:04] Anne
    I think you're being unkind.
[07:06] Lynde
    Am I, now?
[07:09] Marilla
    Rachel minds that you're not
    spoken for by anyone yet.
[07:15] Anne
    My just desserts.
    I've ruined every chance I had.
[07:19] Marilla
    You mean that fellow Roy?
[07:23] Anne
    Yes. I'm going to face the
    punishment for what I've done.
[07:28] Marilla
    You tormenting yourself
    won't do anybody any good.
[07:32] Marilla
    What has Gilbert Blythe been
    doing to himself at college?
[07:35] Marilla
    I saw him when he came home last week,
[07:38] Marilla
    and he is so pale and
    thin I hardly knew him.
[07:43] Anne
    He studied very hard last winter.
[07:45] Anne
    He's going to start the
    medical course at Redmond,
[07:49] Anne
    so I think he's rather run down.
[07:52] Anne
    You know he took the Cooper Prize.
[07:56] Anne
    It hasn't been taken for five years!
[07:58] Lynde
    And you took Highest Honors in English.
[08:02] Lynde
    Jane Andrews could never have managed that.
[08:05] Anne
    Mrs. Lynde!
[08:07] Anne
    How is Diana?
[08:09] Anne
    It is lonely coming home without
    her here to welcome me.
[08:13] Marilla
    Diana has something else
    to think of just now.
[08:17] Marilla
    You must have heard.
[08:19] Marilla
    Why don't you go and see her yourself?
[08:22] Anne
    My! Isn't he delightful!
[08:25] Diana
    Look! Anne's come home.
[08:28] Anne
    He looks just like Fred!
[08:29] Diana
    Before he came, I wanted a girl,
    so that I could call her Anne.
[08:35] Diana
    But now that little Fred is here, I wouldn't
    exchange him for a million girls.
[08:42] Mrs. Allan
    "Every little baby is the
    sweetest and the best."
[08:46] Mrs. Allan
    If little Anne had come, you'd have
    felt just the same about her.
[08:53] Diana
    Yes, Mrs. Allan, you're exactly right.
[08:56] Diana
    I can hardly wait till he
    gets old enough to talk.
[09:02] Diana
    I just long to hear him say
    "mother" with a smile.
[09:09] Minister
    ...in sickness and in health...
[09:11] Philippa
    Mother thinks it's terrible.
[09:13] Minister
    ...in good times and in bad...
[09:14] Philippa
    She thinks Jo might at least take
    a church in a decent place.
[09:20] Philippa
    But the wilderness of the Patterson slums
[09:30] Philippa
    will blossom like the rose
    for me if Jo is there.
[09:34] Philippa
    Oh, Anne,
[09:38] Philippa
    I'm so happy my heart aches with it.
[09:44] Anne
    I'm surrounded by happiness, Matthew.
[09:50] Anne
    Yes, of course, Matthew.
[09:53] Anne
    I'm happy, too.
[10:03] Anne
    "I've tried the world—it wears no more"
[10:07] Anne
    "The colouring of romance it wore."
[10:12] Marilla
    See here, Davy. Not a word to Anne about—
[10:16] Anne
    I'm back!
[10:18] Marilla
    Oh, Anne. You're home.
[10:20] Davy
    It's good to see you again.
[10:21] Lynde
    Come in.
[10:23] Dora
    Welcome home, Anne.
[10:25] Marilla
    I see you're drenched.
[10:27] Lynde
    How was the wedding?
[10:29] Anne
    Oh, Phil was radiant.
[10:32] Anne
    Everyone was so nice, I stayed
    longer than I meant to.
[10:36] Anne
    "East, west, home's best."
[10:40] Anne
    Davy, have you been growing again lately?
[10:43] Davy
    Yeah. I've growed a whole
    inch since you left.
[10:47] Davy
    I'm as tall as Milty Boulter now.
[10:51] Davy
    Say, Anne, did you know that
    Gilbert Blythe is dying?
[10:57] Marilla
    Davy!
[11:10] Anne
    Gilbert is... what?
[11:13] Davy
    Like I said, he's dying.
[11:17] Marilla
    Davy!
[11:17] Lynde
    Anne, don't look like that—
    don't look like that!
[11:21] Marilla
    We didn't mean to tell you so suddenly.
[11:26] Anne
    Is it true?
[11:27] Marilla
    Gilbert is very ill.
[11:30] Marilla
    He took down with typhoid fever
    just after you left for Bolingbroke.
[11:35] Marilla
    The doctor said he'd been terribly run down.
[11:39] Marilla
    But while there's life, there's hope.
[11:42] Davy
    Mr. Harrison said they had no hope of him.
[11:46] Marilla
    Davy!
[11:47] Davy
    Well he did!
[11:53] Anne
    Gilbert is dying.
[11:56] Anne
    Gilbert is...
[11:58] Anne
    If Gilbert goes away from me,
    I cannot live, either.
[12:03] Anne
    Yes, I know now.
[12:05] Anne
    I... I...
[12:21] Anne
    You're not...
[12:23] Anne
    who I want.
[12:24] Ideal Man
    You've always loved Gilbert, haven't you?
[12:29] Ideal Man
    Since you were children.
[12:33] Ideal Man
    It's too late now.
[12:35] Ideal Man
    If you hadn't been so foolish, you
    would have the right to go to him now.
[12:43] Ideal Man
    You could have had the bitter solace
[12:47] Ideal Man
    of being with him at the last.
[12:52] Ideal Man
    But Gilbert will leave this life
    never knowing that you loved him.
[12:58] Ideal Man
    Sad, despondent, thinking you never cared.
[13:00] Anne
    No!
[13:03] Anne
    No! No!
[13:05] Anne
    I love him!
[13:07] Anne
    I love... I love Gilbert!
[13:10] Anne
    I do love him! I do!
[13:14] Anne
    So please...
[13:16] Anne
    don't take him from me.
[14:02] (Flashback) Ideal Man
    Gilbert will leave this life
    never knowing that you loved him.
[14:11] Anne
    Without Gilbert...
[14:16] Anne
    nothing is of any value.
[14:33] Anne
    Excuse me...
[14:35] Anne
    Excuse...
[14:36] Anne
    I beg your pardon!
[14:39] Anne
    Don't you work for George Fletcher,
    who lives next door to the Blythes?
[14:46] Pacifique
    That I do.
[14:47] Anne
    Did you come from
    George Fletcher's this morning?
[14:49] Pacifique
    Sure!
[14:51] Pacifique
    Mr. Fletcher hired another
    boy to help with the work.
[14:54] Pacifique
    He gets to Bright River on the first train.
[14:59] Pacifique
    I'm going through the woods for a shortcut.
[15:03] Anne
    Th-Then...
[15:04] Anne
    Did you hear how Gilbert Blythe
    was this morning?
[15:08] Pacifique
    Gilbert?
[15:12] Pacifique
    He's better.
[15:15] Pacifique
    The worst is behind him.
[15:18] Pacifique
    The doctor says he'll be
    all right any day now.
[15:23] Pacifique
    Well, I must hurry.
[15:26] Anne
    Oh, thank goodness.
[15:28] Anne
    I...
[15:30] Anne
    I can't thank you enough!
[15:55] Anne
    "Weeping may endure for a night"
[16:00] Anne
    "but joy cometh in the morning."
[16:12] Gilbert
    Hello, Anne.
[16:14] Anne
    Gilbert!
[16:16] Anne
    How do you feel?
[16:17] Gilbert
    Much better, thanks to you.
[16:19] Gilbert
    I've come to ask you to go
    for one of our rambles.
[16:23] Gilbert
    Do you remember the old apple tree
    we went to see before we left for college?
[16:28] Anne
    Yes, of course.
[16:30] Anne
    But have you forgotten
    today is Jane's wedding?
[16:33] Anne
    I've got to do something to this dress.
[16:36] Gilbert
    Well, can you go tomorrow afternoon, then?
[16:38] Anne
    Yes, I think so.
[16:40] Gilbert
    I'll never forgive Jane for not
    inviting me to her wedding.
[16:46] Anne
    You really can't blame her when
    you think of all her relations.
[16:50] Anne
    The house can hardly hold them all.
[16:53] Gilbert
    Is it true she'll wear so many diamonds
[16:57] Gilbert
    that you can't tell where the
    diamonds end and Jane begins?
[17:00] Anne
    I'll tell you once I've seen her.
[17:03] Gilbert
    Good.
[17:06] Gilbert
    Well, I'll be up tomorrow.
[17:09] Gilbert
    Hope you'll have a nice time tonight.
[17:10] Anne
    Thank you.
[17:15] Anne
    Gilbert!
[17:17] Anne
    Let's go for that ramble now, after all.
[17:20] Gilbert
    What about your dress?
[17:22] Anne
    I'll manage it somehow.
[17:24] Anne
    Today is too lovely to waste
    not walking with you.
[17:30] Anne
    This moment will never come again.
[17:47] Anne
    My!
[17:53] Anne
    It's all in bloom!
[17:55] Gilbert
    Yes. I can hardly wait
    for the fruit come fall.
[17:58] Anne
    True.
[17:59] Anne
    I feel as though old dreams might return
    in the midst of all this beauty.
[18:04] Gilbert
    Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?
[18:09] Anne
    Of course. Everybody has.
[18:12] Anne
    None of us could never
    fulfill all of our dreams.
[18:17] Anne
    And we would be as good as dead if
    we had nothing left to dream about.
[18:24] Gilbert
    I have a dream.
[18:27] Gilbert
    Although it has often seemed to
    me that it could never come true,
[18:32] Gilbert
    I persist in dreaming it.
[18:36] Gilbert
    I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it,
[18:39] Gilbert
    a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends,
[18:46] Gilbert
    and...
[18:49] Gilbert
    and you.
[18:52] Gilbert
    I asked you a question over two years ago.
[18:57] (Flashback) Anne
    I...
[18:59] (Flashback) Anne
    I...
[19:01] (Flashback) Anne
    I can't.
[19:05] Gilbert
    If I ask it again today,
[19:09] Gilbert
    will you give me a different answer?
[19:14] Anne
    B-But what about Christine?
[19:17] Anne
    I thought you loved Christine Stuart.
[19:26] Gilbert
    Christine was engaged to
    somebody in her hometown.
[19:30] Gilbert
    I knew her brother, and he asked
    me to look after her for a bit.
[19:36] Gilbert
    I knew college gossip credited us
    with being in love with each other,
[19:39] Gilbert
    but I didn't care after you told
    me you could never love me.
[19:43] Gilbert
    And Christine trusted me, anyway.
[19:48] Gilbert
    Anne, there never could be
    anybody else for me but you.
[19:53] Gilbert
    I've loved you ever since that day you
    broke your slate over my head in school.
[20:20] Anne
    I don't see how you could keep on loving
    me when I was such a little fool.
[20:26] Gilbert
    Well, I tried to stop, especially
    after Gardner came around.
[20:32] Gilbert
    I felt sure there was no chance for me then.
[20:36] Gilbert
    But I couldn't.
[20:39] Gilbert
    Then the day my fever broke, I got a letter
    from Phil Gordon—Phil Blake, rather.
[20:45] Anne
    Phil wrote to you?
[20:47] Gilbert
    Yes.
[20:48] Gilbert
    She told me there was really
    nothing between you and Roy
[20:53] Gilbert
    and advised me to "try again."
[20:56] Gilbert
    Well, the doctor was amazed at
    my rapid recovery after that.
[21:01] Gilbert
    Anne?
[21:02] Anne
    I can never forget the night
    I thought you were dying.
[21:09] Anne
    Oh, I knew—I knew then—
[21:13] Anne
    and I thought it was too late.
[21:17] Gilbert
    But it wasn't for either of us, Anne.
[21:21] Anne
    No.
[21:22] Anne
    It's the birthday of our happiness.
[21:26] Anne
    I've always loved apple blossoms,
[21:30] Anne
    and now they will be dearer than ever.
[21:33] Gilbert
    But I'll have to ask you
    to wait a long time.
[21:38] Gilbert
    It will be three years before
    I'll finish my medical course.
[21:41] Gilbert
    And even then there will be no
    diamond sunbursts and marble halls.
[21:49] Anne
    I just want you, Gilbert.
[21:54] Anne
    Sunbursts and marble halls
    may be all very well,
[21:57] Anne
    but there is more
    "scope for imagination" without them.
[22:02] Anne
    And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter.
[22:06] Anne
    We'll just be happy, waiting and working
    for each other—and dreaming.
[22:14] Anne
    Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
[22:57] Anne
    Matthew, we're going
    to be married.
[23:01] Gilbert
    We took the long way getting here,
[23:03] Gilbert
    but I promise I'll make her happy.
[23:07] Anne
    Thank you, Matthew.
[23:10] Anne
    I'm so glad I'm your daughter.
[23:28] Anne
    Gracious Heavenly Father,
[23:33] Anne
    thank you so much for my Green Gables,
[23:38] Anne
    for bringing me here to
    wonderful Green Gables.
[23:46] Anne
    Thank you!
[23:52] Anne
    Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.