Gilbert and Anne's future together as husband and wife begins in the book Anne's House of Dreams and continues through a couple more sequels, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside. In any case their future sure isn't the stupid story portrayed in the movie Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story.

In Anne's House of Dreams, Gilbert and Anne move to the village of Glen St. Mary at Four Winds Point on Prince Edward Island, where they move into a charming little house that Anne calls her "house of dreams," and Gilbert begins establishing his medical practice in the area. They meet many new characters, including Captain Jim, the man who tends the lighthouse; Miss Cornelia, who is always running down men and Methodists; Leslie Moore, a woman in sad circumstances who becomes Anne's good friend, and whose fortunes change for the better later in the book; and Susan Baker, who becomes the Blythes' housekeeper. Anne and Gilbert also have their first two children: Joyce, who only lives one day, and James Matthew (nicknamed Jem). In the end, Gilbert suggests moving into a bigger house in the area, which saddens Anne greatly, though she agrees their growing family will need a house bigger than her happy little "house of dreams."

In Anne of Ingleside (Ingleside being the name of the new house), the Blythes' story picks up just before Anne gives birth to their sixth living child, Bertha Marilla (nicknamed Rilla). Her other children after Jem are Walter, twin girls Diana and Anne (nicknamed Di and Nan) and boy Shirley. This book is mostly about the adventures and misadventures of Anne and Gilbert's children, who take after their mother in vivid imagination and propensity for melodrama, and how much Anne loves mothering them. Near the end, Anne fears that Gilbert is "falling out of love" with her and that their marriage has lost its spark, and maybe even that Gilbert is pining for Christine Stuart, the girl from his college days, but in the end it turns out Gilbert is only deeply worried about a medical case which he hadn't told Anne about, and he is as much in love with her as ever, even promising her a second honeymoon in Europe following a medical convention in London.

Rainbow Valley is named for the enchanting valley near Ingleside where the Blythe children play, and is all about the escapades and adventures of the Blythe children and their friends: Jerry, Faith, Una, and Carl Meredith, and Mary Vance, a runaway orphan who is eventually taken in by Miss Cornelia. The Merediths are the children of the new Presbyterian minister, a widower who is kind and intelligent but very scatterbrained and easily lost in his thoughts. Without close supervision, his children end up doing many things (usually with childlike innocence) that scandalize the town of Glen St. Mary, but eventually Rev. Meredith falls in love with and is able to marry Rosemary West, providing the children with a kind stepmother and some better "bringing up."

Rilla of Ingleside tells how the Blythe family experiences the years of World War I from the viewpoint of youngest child Rilla. Over the course of the war, Jem, Walter, Shirley, Jerry & Carl Meredith, and Rilla's sweetheart Ken Ford all go off to fight. On the homefront, everyone anxiously awaits the war news every day, and Rilla organizes a Junior Red Cross. She also rescues a baby boy whose mother has died and whose father has gone to war and does her best to raise him despite not liking babies. The war changes everyone forever. Jem is taken prisoner and the family doesn't know if he is alive or dead for awhile though he comes back safe, Carl loses an eye, and Walter is killed. The father of the baby Rilla rescued comes back from the war married and takes his son home to live with him, but Rilla is able to let him go seeing that his stepmother seems kind and that he will be living nearby and can visit her. At the end of the book, Rilla's sweetheart Ken Ford comes back and reaffirms his affection for her.

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