Echo Lodge

Echo Lodge is the Irvings’ summer home and a place of reunion for Anne Shirley: during a three-week July visit, she finds Miss Lavendar unchanged and reconnects with Paul Irving, whose years of growing up have altered his interests but not their friendship.

The Irvings’ Summer Home

The Irvings return to Echo Lodge for the summer, and Anne spends three happy weeks there in July. The account identifies the lodge through this seasonal return and the people gathered around it; it gives no further description of the building or its surroundings.

A Place of Reunion

At Echo Lodge, Anne sees Miss Lavendar again, still unchanged, and Charlotta the Fourth, now grown up but still devoted to her. Charlotta frankly tells Anne that she has not met anyone in Boston equal to her, expressing the enduring affection that makes the visit a homecoming as well as a reunion.

Continuity Amid Change

Paul is sixteen and nearly grown. His chestnut curls have been cut close, and football now interests him more than fairies, marking the distance he has travelled from childhood. Yet the bond with his former teacher remains: their kinship of spirit has survived the changes that time has brought. After her visit, Anne returns to Green Gables on a stormy July evening, glad both to have seen the Irvings and to be back with her family. Echo Lodge thus holds together two kinds of attachment: the lasting connection she renews there and the pull of home that welcomes her back.