Anne's Arrival at Bright River Station

Matthew's first sight of Anne: a freckled child with red braids in a faded brown dress, clutching a carpetbag. Her decision: 'If you hadn't come for me to-night I'd have gone down the track to that big wild cherry-tree at the bend, and climbed up into it to stay all night.'

Anne names the Avenue 'the White Way of Delight' and Barry's Pond 'the Lake of Shining Waters'—introducing her imaginative renaming as central to her character.