I would let things remain as they were . It was very wicked , I know . It would have been just punishment for such wickedness if I had just been left to abide by that decision . I kept to it all day . That afternoon I had to go up to the Glen to do some shopping . It was one of Dick 's quiet , drowsy days , so I left him alone . I was gone a little longer than I had expected , and he missed me . He felt lonely . And when I got home , he ran to meet me just like a child , with such a pleased smile on his face . Somehow , Anne , I just gave way then . That smile on his poor vacant face was more than I could endure . I felt as if I were denying a child the chance to grow and develop . I knew that I must give him his chance , no matter what the consequences might be . So I came over and told Gilbert . Oh , Anne , you must have thought me hateful in those weeks before I went away . I did n't mean to be -- but I could n't think of anything except what I had to do , and everything and everybody about me were like shadows . '' `` I know -- I understood , Leslie . And now it is all over -- your chain is broken -- there is no cage . '' `` There is no cage , '' repeated Leslie absently , plucking at the fringing grasses with her slender , brown hands . `` But -- it does n't seem as if there were anything else , Anne .
You -- you remember what I told you XXXXX my folly that night on the sand-bar ?
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