Marilla's eyes will never be much better than they are now, although we are so thankful to think that they will not get worse. And then there are the twins. I don't believe their uncle will ever really send for them. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all. . They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out.
Life is rich and full here.
Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm so thankful for friendship. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it. Gertie Pye's and Julia Bell's. I think it is desecration to call that friendship. Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world.