LESLIE DECIDES A sudden outbreak of a virulent type of influenza at the Glen and down at the fishing village kept Gilbert so busy for the next fortnight that he had no time to pay the promised visit to Captain Jim.

Anne hoped against hope that he had abandoned the idea about Dick Moore, and, resolving to let sleeping dogs lie, she said no more about the subject.
But she thought of it incessantly.
"I wonder if it would be right for me to tell him that Leslie cares for Owen," she thought.

"He would never let her suspect that he knew, so her pride would not suffer, and it MIGHT convince him that he should let Dick Moore alone.

Shall I--shall I?
No, after all, I cannot.

A promise is sacred, and I've no right to betray Leslie's secret.