Greeting and Farewell Charlie Sloane, Gilbert Blythe and Anne Shirley left Avonlea the following Monday morning.

Anne had hoped for a fine day.

Diana was to drive her to the station and they wanted this, their last drive together for some time, to be a pleasant one.

But when Anne went to bed Sunday night the east wind was moaning around Green Gables with an ominous prophecy which was fulfilled in the morning.

Anne awoke to find raindrops pattering against her window and shadowing the pond's gray surface with widening rings; hills and sea were hidden in mist, and the whole world seemed dim and dreary.