`` So Christmas was not so hard as I expected it to be ; and now the New Year is coming -- and we are still hoping for the ` Big Push ' that will end the war -- and Little Dog Monday is getting stiff and rheumatic from his cold vigils , but still he ` carries on , ' and Shirley continues to read the exploits of the aces . Oh , nineteen-seventeen , what will you bring ? '' CHAPTER XXV SHIRLEY GOES `` No , Woodrow , there will be no peace without victory , '' said Susan , sticking her knitting needle viciously through President Wilson 's name in the newspaper column . `` We Canadians mean to have peace and victory , too . You , if it pleases you , Woodrow , can have the peace without the victory '' -- and Susan stalked off to bed with the comfortable consciousness of having got the better of the argument with the President . But a few days later she rushed to Mrs. Blythe in red-hot excitement . `` Mrs. Dr. dear , what do you think ? A ` phone message has just come through from Charlottetown that Woodrow Wilson has sent that German ambassador man to the right about at last . They tell me that means war . So I begin to think that Woodrow 's heart is in the right place after all , wherever his head may be , and I am going to commandeer a little sugar and celebrate the occasion with some fudge , despite the howls of the Food Board . I thought that submarine business would bring things to a crisis . I told Cousin Sophia so when she said it was the beginning of the end for the Allies . '' `` Do n't let the doctor hear of the fudge , Susan , '' said Anne , with a smile . `` You know he has laid down very strict rules for us along the lines of economy the government has asked for . '' `` Yes , Mrs. Dr. dear , and a man should be master in his own household , and his women folk should bow to his decrees . I flatter myself that I am becoming quite efficient in economizing '' -- Susan had taken to using certain German terms with killing effect -- `` but one can exercise a little gumption on the quiet now and then . Shirley was wishing for some of my fudge the other day -- the Susan brand , as he called it -- and I said ` The first victory there is to celebrate I shall make you some . ' I consider this news quite equal to a victory , and what the doctor does not know will never grieve him . I take the whole responsibility , Mrs. Dr. dear , so do not you vex your conscience . '' Susan spoiled Shirley shamelessly that winter .
He came home from Queen 's every week-end , and Susan had all his favourite dishes for him , in so far XXXXX she could evade or wheedle the doctor , and waited on him hand and foot .
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