`` Whatever are you doing -- HERE -- tonight ? '' `` If it comes to that , whatever are YOU doing here ? '' said Leslie , trying to laugh . The effort was a failure . She looked very pale and tired ; but the love locks under her scarlet cap were curling about her face and eyes like little sparkling rings of gold . `` I 'm waiting for Gilbert -- he 's over at the Cove . I intended to stay at the light , but Captain Jim is away . '' `` Well , I came here because I wanted to walk -- and walk -- and WALK , '' said Leslie restlessly . `` I could n't on the rock shore -- the tide was too high and the rocks prisoned me . I had to come here -- or I should have gone mad , I think . I rowed myself over the channel in Captain Jim 's flat . I 've been here for an hour . Come -- come -- let us walk . I ca n't stand still . Oh , Anne ! '' `` Leslie , dearest , what is the trouble ? '' asked Anne , though she knew too well already . `` I ca n't tell you -- do n't ask me . I would n't mind your knowing -- I wish you did know -- but I ca n't tell you -- I ca n't tell anyone . I 've been such a fool , Anne -- and oh , it hurts so terribly to be a fool .
There 's nothing so painful XXXXX the world . ''
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