`` Being interrupted did n't improve my temper , so I went on , colder and calmer and deadlier than ever , just as if mother had not spoken . '' ' -- but I have to keep it now . However , I promise you that I will not get another hat for three years or for the duration of the war , if it lasts longer than that . Even you ' -- oh , the sarcasm I put into the ` you ' -- ` can not say that what I paid was too much when spread over at least three years . ' '' ` You will be very tired of that hat before three years , Rilla , ' said mother , with a provoking grin , which , being interpreted , meant that I would n't stick it out . '' ` Tired or not , I will wear it that long , ' I said : and then I marched upstairs and cried to think that I had been sarcastic to mother . `` I hate that hat already . But three years or the duration of the war , I said , and three years or the duration of the war it shall be . I vowed and I shall keep my vow , cost what it will . `` That is one of the ` catawampus ' things . The other is that I have quarrelled with Irene Howard -- or she quarrelled with me -- or , no , we both quarrelled . `` The Junior Red Cross met here yesterday . The hour of meeting was half-past two but Irene came at half-past one , because she got the chance of a drive down from the Upper Glen . Irene has n't been a bit nice to me since the fuss about the eats ; and besides I feel sure she resents not being president . But I have been determined that things should go smoothly , so I have never taken any notice , and when she came yesterday she seemed so nice and sweet again that I hoped she had got over her huffiness and we could be the chums we used to be . `` But as soon as we sat down Irene began to rub me the wrong way . I saw her cast a look at my new knitting-bag . All the girls have always said Irene was jealous-minded and I would never believe them before . But now I feel that perhaps she is . `` The first thing she did was to pounce on Jims -- Irene pretends to adore babies -- pick him out of his cradle and kiss him all over his face .
Now , Irene knows perfectly well that I do n't like to have XXXXX kissed like that .
Cross Glen Howard Irene Jims Rilla catawampus chums first knitting-bag