-- ' I am very sorry but I ca n't . I 've got a date to meet Jem here , you know , and there 's a train goes through at eight . ' `` It 's lovely to have Walter back again though he seems quiet and sad , just as he was at Christmas . But I 'm going to love him hard and cheer him up and make him laugh as he used to . It seems to me that every day of my life Walter means more to me . `` The other evening Susan happened to say that the mayflowers were out in Rainbow Valley . I chanced to be looking at mother when Susan spoke . Her face changed and she gave a queer little choked cry . Most of the time mother is so spunky and gay you would never guess what she feels inside ; but now and then some little thing is too much for her and we see under the surface . ` Mayflowers ! ' she said . ` Jem brought me mayflowers last year ! ' and she got up and went out of the room . I would have rushed off to Rainbow Valley and brought her an armful of mayflowers , but I knew that was n't what she wanted . And after Walter got home last night he slipped away to the valley and brought mother home all the mayflowers he could find . Nobody had said a word to him about it -- he just remembered himself that Jem used to bring mother the first mayflowers and so he brought them in Jem 's place . It shows how tender and thoughtful he is . And yet there are people who send him cruel letters ! `` It seems strange that we can go in with ordinary life just as if nothing were happening overseas that concerned us , just as if any day might not bring us awful news . But we can and do .
XXXXX is putting in the garden , and mother and she are housecleaning , and we Junior Reds are getting up a concert in aid of the Belgians .
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