But I knew -- theoretically -- how people in a faint should be treated , and now I know it practically . Luckily the brook was handy , and after I had worked frantically over her for a while Gertrude came back to life . She never said one word about my news and I did n't dare to refer to it again . I helped her walk up through the maple grove and up to her room , and then she said , ` Rob -- is -- living , ' as if the words were torn out of her , and flung herself on her bed and cried and cried and cried . I never saw anyone cry so before . All the tears that she had n't shed all that week came then . She cried most of last night , I think , but her face this morning looked as if she had seen a vision of some kind , and we were all so happy that we were almost afraid . `` Di and Nan are home for a couple of weeks . 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 XXXXX behold .
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