`` His wife calls him that . '' `` She should have more respect for his holy office , then , '' retorted Mrs. Rachel . `` I 've heard you criticise ministers pretty sharply yourself , '' teased Anne . `` Yes , but I do it reverently , '' protested Mrs. Lynde . `` You never heard me NICKNAME a minister . '' Anne smothered a smile . `` Well , there are Diana and Fred and little Fred and Small Anne Cordelia -- and Jane Andrews . I wish I could have Miss Stacey and Aunt Jamesina and Priscilla and Stella . But Stella is in Vancouver , and Pris is in Japan , and Miss Stacey is married in California , and Aunt Jamesina has gone to India to explore her daughter 's mission field , in spite of her horror of snakes . It 's really dreadful -- the way people get scattered over the globe . '' `` The Lord never intended it , that 's what , '' said Mrs. Rachel authoritatively . `` In my young days people grew up and married and settled down where they were born , or pretty near it . Thank goodness you 've stuck to the Island , Anne . I was afraid Gilbert would insist on rushing off to the ends of the earth when he got through college , and dragging you with him . '' `` If everybody stayed where he was born places would soon be filled up , Mrs. Lynde . '' `` Oh , I 'm not going to argue with you , Anne . I am not a B.A. . What time of the day is the ceremony to be ? '' `` We have decided on noon -- high noon , as the society reporters say . That will give us time to catch the evening train to Glen St. Mary . ''
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