Apart from his prejudice against new-fangled surgery, I'm afraid he looks at the case from your point of view--don't do it, for Leslie's sake." "There now," cried Anne triumphantly.

"I do think, Gilbert, that you ought to abide by the judgment of a man nearly eighty, who has seen a great deal and saved scores of lives himself--surely his opinion ought to weigh more than a mere boy's." "Thank you." "Don't laugh.

It's too serious." "That's just my point.

It IS serious.

Here is a man who is a helpless burden.