I will not have you worried , and that blessed child upset in consequence , for any number of legs . '' `` Oh , you must go to your sister at once , Susan . I can get a girl from the cove , who will do for a time . '' `` Anne , will you let me come and stay with you while Susan is away ? '' exclaimed Leslie . `` Do ! I 'd love to -- and it would be an act of charity on your part . I 'm so horribly lonely over there in that big barn of a house . There 's so little to do -- and at night I 'm worse than lonely -- I 'm frightened and nervous in spite of locked doors . There was a tramp around two days ago . '' Anne joyfully agreed , and next day Leslie was installed as an inmate of the little house of dreams . Miss Cornelia warmly approved of the arrangement . `` It seems Providential , '' she told Anne in confidence . `` I 'm sorry for Matilda Clow , but since she had to break her leg it could n't have happened at a better time . Leslie will be here while Owen Ford is in Four Winds , and those old cats up at the Glen wo n't get the chance to meow , as they would if she was living over there alone and Owen going to see her . They are doing enough of it as it is , because she does n't put on mourning . I said to one of them , ` If you mean she should put on mourning for George Moore , it seems to me more like his resurrection than his funeral ; and if it 's Dick you mean , I confess I ca n't see the propriety of going into weeds for a man who died thirteen years ago and good riddance then ! ' And when old Louisa Baldwin remarked to me that she thought it very strange that Leslie should never have suspected it was n't her own husband I said , ` YOU never suspected it was n't Dick Moore , and you were next-door neighbor to him all his life , and by nature you 're ten times as suspicious as Leslie . ' But you ca n't stop some people 's tongues , Anne , dearie , and I 'm real thankful Leslie will be under your roof while Owen is courting her . '' Owen Ford came to the little house one August evening when Leslie and Anne were absorbed in worshipping the baby .
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