Then they go back to Red Cross work in the training camp at Kingsport . I envy them . Father says I 'm doing just as good work here , with Jims and my Junior Reds . But it lacks the romance theirs must have . `` Kut has fallen . It was almost a relief when it did fall , we had been dreading it so long . It crushed us flat for a day and then we picked up and put it behind us . Cousin Sophia was as gloomy as usual and came over and groaned that the British were losing everywhere . '' ` They 're good losers , ' said Susan grimly . ` When they lose a thing they keep on looking till they find it again ! Anyhow , my king and country need me now to cut potato sets for the back garden , so get you a knife and help me , Sophia Crawford . It will divert your thoughts and keep you from worrying over a campaign that you are not called upon to run . ' `` Susan is an old brick , and the way she flattens out poor Cousin Sophia is beautiful to behold . `` As for Verdun , the battle goes on and on , and we see-saw between hope and fear . But I know that strange dream of Miss Oliver 's foretold the victory of France . ` They shall not pass . ' '' CHAPTER XX NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING `` Where are you wandering , Anne o ' mine ? '' asked the doctor , who even yet , after twenty-four years of marriage , occasionally addressed his wife thus when nobody was about . Anne was sitting on the veranda steps , gazing absently over the wonderful bridal world of spring blossom , Beyond the white orchard was a copse of dark young firs and creamy wild cherries , where the robins were whistling madly ; for it was evening and the fire of early stars was burning over the maple grove . Anne came back with a little sigh .
`` I was just taking relief from intolerable realities in a dream , Gilbert -- a dream XXXXX all our children were home again -- and all small again -- playing in Rainbow Valley .
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