No matter.

This is no affair for Miss Cornelia to settle.
Leslie alone must decide it." "You know very well how she will decide it," said Anne, almost in tears.

"She has ideals of duty, too.

I don't see how you can take such a responsibility on your shoulders.

_I_ couldn't." "'Because right is right to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence,'" quoted Gilbert.
"Oh, you think a couplet of poetry a convincing argument!" scoffed Anne.