`` I had not expected you to look at the matter as you do , Anne , '' he said a little stiffly , getting up and moving towards the office door . It was their first approach to a quarrel . But Anne flew after him and dragged him back . `` Now , Gilbert , you are not ` going off mad . ' Sit down here and I 'll apologise bee-YEW-ti-fully , I should n't have said that . But -- oh , if you knew -- '' Anne checked herself just in time . She had been on the very verge of betraying Leslie 's secret . `` Knew what a woman feels about it , '' she concluded lamely . `` I think I do know . I 've looked at the matter from every point of view -- and I 've been driven to the conclusion that it is my duty to tell Leslie that I believe it is possible that Dick can be restored to himself ; there my responsibility ends . It will be for her to decide what she will do . '' `` I do n't think you 've any right to put such a responsibility on her . She has enough to bear . She is poor -- how could she afford such an operation ? '' `` That is for her to decide , '' persisted Gilbert stubbornly . `` You say you think that Dick can be cured . But are you SURE of it ? '' `` Certainly not . Nobody could be sure of such a thing . There may have been lesions of the brain itself , the effect of which can never be removed .
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