`` What 's this I hear about your going to start up a Village Improvement Society , Anne ? '' `` I was just talking it over with some of the girls and boys at the last Debating Club , '' said Anne , flushing . `` They thought it would be rather nice ... and so do Mr. and Mrs. Allan . Lots of villages have them now . '' `` Well , you 'll get into no end of hot water if you do . Better leave it alone , Anne , that 's what . People do n't like being improved . '' `` Oh , we are not going to try to improve the PEOPLE . It is Avonlea itself . There are lots of things which might be done to make it prettier . For instance , if we could coax Mr. Levi Boulter to pull down that dreadful old house on his upper farm would n't that be an improvement ? '' `` It certainly would , '' admitted Mrs. Rachel . `` That old ruin has been an eyesore to the settlement for years . But if you Improvers can coax Levi Boulter to do anything for the public that he is n't to be paid for doing , may I be there to see and hear the process , that 's what . I do n't want to discourage you , Anne , for there may be something in your idea , though I suppose you did get it out of some rubbishy Yankee magazine ; but you 'll have your hands full with your school and I advise you as a friend not to bother with your improvements , that 's what . But there , I know you 'll go ahead with it if you 've set your mind on it . You were always one to carry a thing through somehow . '' Something about the firm outlines of Anne 's lips told that Mrs. Rachel was not far astray in this estimate . Anne 's heart was bent on forming the Improvement Society . Gilbert Blythe , who was to teach in White Sands but would always be home from Friday night to Monday morning , was enthusiastic about it ; and most of the other folks were willing to go in for anything that meant occasional meetings and consequently some `` fun . ''
As for what the `` XXXXX '' were to be , nobody had any very clear idea except Anne and Gilbert .
People Something anything farm firm heart idea improvement improvements process