I'm afraid that in my secret heart I've been hoping the operation wouldn't succeed, and I am wholesomely ashamed of it." "How does Leslie seem to take it ?" "She writes like one dazed.

I think that, like ourselves, she hardly realises it yet.

She says, 'It all seems like a strange dream to me, Anne.' That is the only reference she makes to herself." "Poor child! I suppose when the chains are struck off a prisoner he'd feel queer and lost without them for a while.

Anne, dearie, here's a thought keeps coming into my mind.

What about Owen Ford?
We both know Leslie was fond of him.