You'll see your little Joyce again some day." "But she won't be my baby," said Anne, with trembling lips.

"Oh, she may be, as Longfellow says, 'a fair maiden clothed with celestial grace'-- but she'll be a stranger to me." "God will manage better'n THAT, I believe," said Captain Jim.
They were both silent for a little time.

Then Captain Jim said very softly: "Mistress Blythe, may I tell you about lost Margaret ?" "Of course," said Anne gently.

She did not know who "lost Margaret" was, but she felt that she was going to hear the romance of Captain Jim's life.
"I've often wanted to tell you about her," Captain Jim went on.
"Do you know why, Mistress Blythe?
It's because I want somebody to remember and think of her sometime after I'm gone.

I can't bear that her name should be forgotten by all living souls.