Anne wandered dismally around until his return . `` Well , what did Leslie say ? '' she demanded when he came in . `` Very little . I think she felt rather dazed . '' `` And is she going to have the operation ? '' `` She is going to think it over and decide very soon . '' Gilbert flung himself wearily into the easy chair before the fire . He looked tired . It had not been an easy thing for him to tell Leslie . And the terror that had sprung into her eyes when the meaning of what he told her came home to her was not a pleasant thing to remember . Now , when the die was cast , he was beset with doubts of his own wisdom . Anne looked at him remorsefully ; then she slipped down on the rug beside him and laid her glossy red head on his arm . `` Gilbert , I 've been rather hateful over this . I wo n't be any more . Please just call me red-headed and forgive me . '' By which Gilbert understood that , no matter what came of it , there would be no I-told-you-so 's . But he was not wholly comforted . Duty in the abstract is one thing ; duty in the concrete is quite another , especially when the doer is confronted by a woman 's stricken eyes . Some instinct made Anne keep away from Leslie for the next three days .
On the third evening Leslie came down XXXXX the little house and told Gilbert that she had made up her mind ; she would take Dick to Montreal and have the operation .
By before for in into of on over that to