`` Rilla-my-Rilla '' in Walter 's musical voice sounded very beautiful to her -- like the lilt and ripple of some silvery brook . She would have died for Walter if it would have done him any good , so she told Miss Oliver . Rilla was as fond of italics as most girls of fifteen are -- and the bitterest drop in her cup was her suspicion that he told Di more of his secrets than he told her . `` He thinks I 'm not grown up enough to understand , '' she had once lamented rebelliously to Miss Oliver , `` but I am ! And I would never tell them to a single soul -- not even to you , Miss Oliver . I tell you all my own -- I just could n't be happy if I had any secret from you , dearest -- but I would never betray his . I tell him everything -- I even show him my diary . And it hurts me dreadfully when he does n't tell me things . He shows me all his poems , though -- they are marvellous , Miss Oliver . Oh , I just live in the hope that some day I shall be to Walter what Wordsworth 's sister Dorothy was to him . Wordsworth never wrote anything like Walter 's poems -- nor Tennyson , either . '' `` I would n't say just that . Both of them wrote a great deal of trash , '' said Miss Oliver dryly . Then , repenting , as she saw a hurt look in Rilla 's eye , she added hastily , `` But I believe Walter will be a great poet , too -- some day -- and you will have more of his confidence as you grow older . '' `` When Walter was in the hospital with typhoid last year I was almost crazy , '' sighed Rilla , a little importantly . `` They never told me how ill he really was until it was all over -- father would n't let them . I 'm glad I did n't know -- I could n't have borne it . I cried myself to sleep every night as it was . But sometimes , '' concluded Rilla bitterly -- she liked to speak bitterly now and then in imitation of Miss Oliver -- `` sometimes I think Walter cares more for Dog Monday than he does for me . '' Dog Monday was the Ingleside dog , so called because he had come into the family on a Monday when Walter had been reading Robinson Crusoe .
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