Anne: Years Later
Anne of Green Gables still had her green eyes and red hair and dear husband Gilbert. After twenty-five years of marriage and several children later, she still danced with the northern harbour winds, and still buried her freckled nose into posies.
Perhaps the only real difference between Anne Shirley and Anne Blythe was her remarkably nonchalant attitude to everyone else around her, especially in the village of Mary St. Mead.
Although every other respectable married woman concerned herself mainly with her chickens, vegetables, and market bargains, Anne romped and roved across fields of barley, without a care in the world. Susan, her dependable cook took care of all the household matters.
"Really Anne, what DO you do all day," inquired Gilbert one day at the dining room table. Her children all stared at her with the same question in their eyes. Only today at school, had another student been talking about their dear mother as though she were an irresponsible hussy.
"I keep young," said Anne, gaily, sparkling eyes and smiling lips.
The next morning as the family left the house, to return to their respective jobs and daily activities, Anne flew across the fields beyond the house to meet her friend Cordelia.
"You look exceptionally fine today, Cordelia," said Anne, as she gazed at her reflection in the smooth glass of the harbour water.
"Why thank you, so do you," replied the reflection.
"What shall we do today?" asked Anne of her likeness.
"Be wickedly evil. Let's eat strawberries and cream and romp with the kittens in the hayloft," replied Cordelia.
"I am so lucky that you are my friend after all these years," said Anne with a sign of happiness.