Where Was Matthew Cuthber Going?

Matthew Cuthber was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk. His father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men when he founded his homestead. Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land; it is barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avenlya houses were so sociably situated. Mrs. Rachel did not call living in such a place, living, at all. It's just staying.