The gods be good to you all . '' `` The old pagan ! '' muttered Susan , as Norman strode away . She did not care if Ellen Douglas did hear her . Susan could never understand why fire did not descend from heaven upon Norman Douglas when he insulted ministers the way he did . But the astonishing thing was Mr. Meredith seemed really to like his brother-in-law . Rilla wished they would talk of something besides war . She had heard nothing else for a week and she was really a little tired of it . Now that she was relieved from her haunting fear that Walter would want to go it made her quite impatient . But she supposed -- with a sigh -- that there would be three or four months of it yet . CHAPTER VI SUSAN , RILLA , AND DOG MONDAY MAKE A RESOLUTION The big living-room at Ingleside was snowed over with drifts of white cotton . Word had come from Red Cross headquarters that sheets and bandages would be required . Nan and Di and Rilla were hard at work . Mrs. Blythe and Susan were upstairs in the boys ' room , engaged in a more personal task . With dry , anguished eyes they were packing up Jem 's belongings . He must leave for Valcartier the next morning . They had been expecting the word but it was none the less dreadful when it came . Rilla was basting the hem of a sheet for the first time in her life . When the word had come that Jem must go she had her cry out among the pines in Rainbow Valley and then she had gone to her mother . `` Mother , I want to do something .
I 'm only a girl -- I ca n't do anything XXXXX win the war -- but I must do something to help at home . ''
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