The Second Evening

"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk-cabbage."
This article is about the vignette featured in Part 1 of The Blythes Are Quoted. You may be looking for a vignette of the same name included in Part 2.

"The Second Evening" is a vignette by Lucy Maud Montgomery, first published in The Blythes Are Quoted in 2009. Another vignette of the same name can be found in the second part of the book.

Description[]

Plot[]

Appearances[]

Characters

Susan Baker
Anne Blythe
Gilbert Blythe
Jem Blythe
Joyce Blythe (mentioned only)
Shirley Blythe (mentioned only)
Walter Blythe (mentioned only)
Mrs. Marshall Elliott (mentioned only)
Tom Lacey (mentioned only)
John Meredith (mentioned only)
Charlie Sloane (mentioned only)
Christine Stuart (mentioned only)
Rosemary West (mentioned only)

Places

Haunted Wood (mentioned only)
Ingleside
Ingleside maple grove (mentioned only)
Lowbridge road (mentioned only)
Orchard Slope (mentioned only)
Rainbow Valley (mentioned only)
Redmond College (mentioned only)

Miscellaneous

"Man and Woman"
"The New House"
"Night"
"Robin Vespers"

Behind the scenes[]

This story takes place in summer 1907, just some time before the wedding of John Meredith and Rosemary West.
In the original text, Montgomery made character name errors such as Charlie Pye (Charlie Sloane) and Rosamund West (Rosemary West). The editor left them in to preserve the originality of her work.

See also[]

The Blythes Are Quoted

Books universe
Works
Anne of Green Gables series (gallery) · Anne of Green Gables (1908) (gallery · notes · read) Anne of Avonlea (1909) (gallery · notes · read) · Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) (gallery · notes · read) Anne of the Island (1915) (gallery · notes · read) · Anne's House of Dreams (1917) (gallery · notes · read) Rainbow Valley (1919) (gallery · notes · read) · Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920) (gallery · notes · read) Rilla of Ingleside (1921) (gallery · notes · read) · Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) (gallery · notes) Anne of Ingleside (1939) (gallery · notes) · The Road to Yesterday (1974) (gallery · notes) Before Green Gables (2008) (gallery · notes) ·The Blythes Are Quoted (2009) (gallery · notes)
Chronicles of Avonlea
"The Hurrying of Ludovic" (read) · "Old Lady Lloyd" (read) · "Each in His Own Tongue" (read) "Little Joscelyn" (read) · "The Winning of Lucinda" (read) · "Old Man Shaw's Girl" (read) "Aunt Olivia's Beau" (read) · "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" (read) · "Pa Sloane's Purchase" (read) "The Courting of Prissy Strong" (read) · "The Miracle at Carmody" (read) · "The End of a Quarrel" (read)
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
"Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat" (read) · "The Materializing of Cecil" (read) · "Her Father's Daughter" (read) "Jane's Baby" (read) · "The Dream-Child" (read) · "The Brother Who Failed" (read) · "The Return of Hester" (read) "The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily" (read) · "Sara's Way" (read) · "The Son of His Mother" (read) "The Education of Betty" (read) · "In Her Selfless Mood" (read) · "The Conscience Case of David Bell" (read) "Only a Common Fellow" (read) · "Tannis of the Flats" (read)
The Road to Yesterday
"An Afternoon with Mr. Jenkins" · "Retribution" · "The Twins Pretend" · "Fancy's Fool" "A Dream Comes True" · "Penelope Struts Her Theories" · "The Reconciliation" "The Cheated Child" · "Fool's Errand" · "The Pot and the Kettle" · "Here Comes the Bride" "Brother Beware" · "The Road to Yesterday" · "A Commonplace Woman"
The Blythes Are Quoted
"Some Fools and a Saint" · "Twilight at Ingleside" (vignette) · "An Afternoon with Mr. Jenkins" "The Second Evening" (vignette) · "Retribution" · "The Third Evening" (vignette) · "The Twins Pretend" "The Fourth Evening" (vignette) · "Fancy's Fool" · "The Fifth Evening" (vignette) · "A Dream Comes True" "The Sixth Evening" (vignette) · "Penelope Struts Her Theories" · "The Seventh Evening" (vignette) "The Reconciliation" · "The Cheated Child" · "Fool's Errand" · "The Pot and the Kettle" "Another Ingleside Twilight" (vignette) · "Brother Beware" · "The Second Evening" (vignette) "Here Comes the Bride" · "The Third Evening" (vignette) · "A Commonplace Woman" "The Fourth Evening" (vignette) · "The Road to Yesterday" · "Au Revoir" (vignette)
See also
L. M. Montgomery · Budge Wilson