Then she said , `` Miranda , if you will put yourself into my hands I 'll have you married to Joe before four o'clock tomorrow afternoon . '' `` Oh , you could n't . '' `` I can and I will . But you 'll have to do exactly as I tell you . '' `` Oh -- I -- do n't think -- oh , father will kill me -- '' `` Nonsense . He 'll be very angry I suppose . But are you more afraid of your father 's anger than you are of Joe 's never coming back to you ? '' `` No , '' said Miranda , with sudden firmness , `` I 'm not . '' `` Will you do as I tell you then ? '' `` Yes , I will . '' `` Then get Joe on the long-distance at once and tell him to bring out a license and ring tonight . '' `` Oh , I could n't , '' wailed the aghast Miranda , `` it -- it would be so -- so indelicate . '' Rilla shut her little white teeth together with a snap . `` Heaven grant me patience , '' she said under her breath . `` I 'll do it then , '' she said aloud , `` and meanwhile , you go home and make what preparations you can . When I ` phone down to you to come up and help me sew come at once . '' As soon as Miranda , pallid , scared , but desperately resolved , had gone , Rilla flew to the telephone and put in a long-distance call for Charlottetown . She got through with such surprising quickness that she was convinced Providence approved of her undertaking , but it was a good hour before she could get in touch with Joe Milgrave at his camp . Meanwhile , she paced impatiently about , and prayed that when she did get Joe there would be no listeners on the line to carry news to Whiskers-on-the-moon . `` Is that you , Joe ?
XXXXX Blythe is speaking -- Rilla -- Rilla -- oh , never mind .
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