barn

Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.

“I guess she’s tired,” said Matthew, who hadn’t spoken since his return from the barn.

But she said nothing, to him, relative to the affair, until they were both out in the yard behind the barn milking the cows.

The next morning, when Anne was washing the breakfast dishes in the pantry, Matthew paused on his way out to the barn to say to Marilla again: