Some instinct warned Anne that the proud , bitter girl would never forgive the one who thus surprised her in her abandonment of despair . Anne slipped noiselessly from the veranda and found her way across the yard . Beyond , she heard voices in the gloom and saw the dim glow of a light . At the gate she met two men -- Captain Jim with a lantern , and another who she knew must be Dick Moore -- a big man , badly gone to fat , with a broad , round , red face , and vacant eyes . Even in the dull light Anne got the impression that there was something unusual about his eyes . `` Is this you , Mistress Blythe ? '' said Captain Jim . `` Now , now , you had n't oughter be roaming about alone on a night like this . You could get lost in this fog easier than not . Jest you wait till I see Dick safe inside the door and I 'll come back and light you over the fields . I ai n't going to have Dr. Blythe coming home and finding that you walked clean over Cape Leforce in the fog . A woman did that once , forty years ago . `` So you 've been over to see Leslie , '' he said , when he rejoined her . `` I did n't go in , '' said Anne , and told what she had seen . Captain Jim sighed . `` Poor , poor , little girl ! She do n't cry often , Mistress Blythe -- she 's too brave for that . She must feel terrible when she does cry . A night like this is hard on poor women who have sorrows . There 's something about it that kinder brings up all we 've suffered -- or feared . ''
`` It 's full of ghosts , '' XXXXX Anne , with a shiver .
Is come coming heard roaming said sighed slipped surprised told