But my old heart aches for Leslie.
She's only twenty-eight and she's eaten more bread with sorrow than most women do in eighty years." They walked on in silence for a little while.

Presently Anne said, "Do you know, Captain Jim, I never like walking with a lantern.

I have always the strangest feeling that just outside the circle of light, just over its edge in the darkness, I am surrounded by a ring of furtive, sinister things, watching me from the shadows with hostile eyes.

I've had that feeling from childhood.

What is the reason?
I never feel like that when I'm really in the darkness--when it is close all around me--I'm not the least frightened." "I've something of that feeling myself," admitted Captain Jim.