Ahoy there mateys! I couldn’t remember if I had read this one or not. Turns out not. This book was published in 1910, two years after anne of green gables. What a silly romance this was! It was so melodramatic. There is a man, Eric, who goes to PEI to teach and meets a mute girl, Kilmeny, in a garden playing a violin. He immediately falls in love with her beauty and innocence and child-like nature. Sigh. So they meet in the garden in secret. He gets called out for his thoughtless behavior and tries to make it right. Then he kisses Kilmeny and awakens her womanhood. More melodrama occurs. This involves an evil Italian whose base nature emerges. Of course Kilmeny’s disability and circumstances of her birth make her a horrible match for Eric. But she be pretty. “Magic” occurs, her disability vanishes, and her gorgeous face stops all objections. Bah! I would have thought this was a debut book and was surprised it was written after Anne. Too silly for me. Arrr!