She still wore her bonnet and her triumphant expression . `` Set right in , dears , and make a good breakfast , '' she said . `` I am not hungry , '' said Rilla almost pleadingly . `` I do n't think I can eat anything . And it is time I was starting for the station . The morning train will soon be along . Please excuse me and let us go -- I 'll take a piece of bread and butter for Jims . '' Mrs. Matilda Pitman shook a knitting-needle playfully at Rilla . `` Sit down and take your breakfast , '' she said . `` Mrs. Matilda Pitman commands you . Everybody obeys Mrs. Matilda Pitman -- even Robert and Amelia . You must obey her too . '' Rilla did obey her . She sat down and , such was the influence of Mrs. Matilda Pitman 's mesmeric eye , she ate a tolerable breakfast . The obedient Amelia never spoke ; Mrs. Matilda Pitman did not speak either ; but she knitted furiously and chuckled . When Rilla had finished , Mrs. Matilda Pitman rolled up her sock . `` Now you can go if you want to , '' she said , `` but you do n't have to go . You can stay here as long as you want to and I 'll make Amelia cook your meals for you . '' The independent Miss Blythe , whom a certain clique of Junior Red Cross girls accused of being domineering and `` bossy , '' was thoroughly cowed . `` Thank you , '' she said meekly , `` but we must really go . ''
`` Well , then , '' said Mrs. Matilda XXXXX , throwing open the door , `` your conveyance is ready for you .
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