Could anything be more enchanting ? '' `` Rap wood , '' said Gertrude Oliver , half laughingly , half seriously . `` Rap wood , Rilla-my-Rilla . '' CHAPTER III MOONLIT MIRTH Rilla , who still buttoned up her eyes when she went to sleep so that she always looked as if she were laughing in her slumber , yawned , stretched , and smiled at Gertrude Oliver . The latter had come over from Lowbridge the previous evening and had been prevailed upon to remain for the dance at the Four Winds lighthouse the next night . `` The new day is knocking at the window . What will it bring us , I wonder . '' Miss Oliver shivered a little . She never greeted the days with Rilla 's enthusiasm . She had lived long enough to know that a day may bring a terrible thing . `` I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness , '' went on Rilla . `` It 's jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and wonder what surprise packet the day will hand you . I always day-dream for ten minutes before I get up , imagining the heaps of splendid things that may happen before night . '' `` I hope something very unexpected will happen today , '' said Gertrude . `` I hope the mail will bring us news that war has been averted between Germany and France . '' `` Oh -- yes , '' said Rilla vaguely . `` It will be dreadful if it is n't , I suppose . But it wo n't really matter much to us , will it ? I think a war would e so exciting . The Boer war was , they say , but I do n't remember anything about it , of course .
Miss XXXXX , shall I wear my white dress tonight or my new green one ?
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