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.