What else did they ever do ? '' `` It was Eve ate the apple , Miss Cornelia . '' '' 'T was a he-creature tempted her , '' retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly . Leslie , after her first anguish was over , found it possible to go on with life after all , as most of us do , no matter what our particular form of torment has been . It is even possible that she enjoyed moments of it , when she was one of the gay circle in the little house of dreams . But if Anne ever hoped that she was forgetting Owen Ford she would have been undeceived by the furtive hunger in Leslie 's eyes whenever his name was mentioned . Pitiful to that hunger , Anne always contrived to tell Captain Jim or Gilbert bits of news from Owen 's letters when Leslie was with them . The girl 's flush and pallor at such moments spoke all too eloquently of the emotion that filled her being . But she never spoke of him to Anne , or mentioned that night on the sand-bar . One day her old dog died and she grieved bitterly over him . `` He 's been my friend so long , '' she said sorrowfully to Anne . `` He was Dick 's old dog , you know -- Dick had him for a year or so before we were married . He left him with me when he sailed on the Four Sisters . Carlo got very fond of me -- and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after mother died , when I was alone . When I heard that Dick was coming back I was afraid Carlo would n't be so much mine . But he never seemed to care for Dick , though he had been so fond of him once . He would snap and growl at him as if he were a stranger . I was glad . It was nice to have one thing whose love was all mine . That old dog has been such a comfort to me , Anne .
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