`` Now , now , you had n't oughter be roaming about alone on a night like this . You could get lost in this fog easier than not . Jest you wait till I see Dick safe inside the door and I 'll come back and light you over the fields . I ai n't going to have Dr. Blythe coming home and finding that you walked clean over Cape Leforce in the fog . A woman did that once , forty years ago . `` So you 've been over to see Leslie , '' he said , when he rejoined her . `` I did n't go in , '' said Anne , and told what she had seen . Captain Jim sighed . `` Poor , poor , little girl ! She do n't cry often , Mistress Blythe -- she 's too brave for that . She must feel terrible when she does cry . A night like this is hard on poor women who have sorrows . There 's something about it that kinder brings up all we 've suffered -- or feared . '' `` It 's full of ghosts , '' said Anne , with a shiver . `` That was why I came over -- I wanted to clasp a human hand and hear a human voice . `` There seem to be so many INHUMAN presences about tonight . Even my own dear house was full of them . They fairly elbowed me out . So I fled over here for companionship of my kind . '' `` You were right not to go in , though , Mistress Blythe .
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