Talking about the future

Gilbert and Anne are sitting side by side in the parlour of his house, where Miss Stacey is holding class after the school burned down.

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"We took a stand and accomplished something, despite the repercussions."

"Maybe because of them? The school's burned down; it's awful ... but it's strange; it makes me feel that the world is moveable."

"No matter where life takes me, I now know that I must be a relentless thorn in the side of those who refuse to amend the status quo."

"Of course you must. And I know what I must NOT be: a country doctor, limited to delivering death sentences. There's so much that we don't yet know. I believe that we can fix people and save them - we just haven't figured out how. I would give anything to be there when we do."

"Are you going to the Sorbonne?"

"You may as well ask if I can fly ..... someday, someday I will."