"I thought you wouldn't want to make more trouble for her." Captain Jim shook his head.
"I don't want to.

I know how you feel about it, Mistress Blythe--just as I feel meself.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that.
There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

I agree with the doctor.

If there's a chance for Dick, Leslie should be told of it.