Yet the round of life and duty went steadily on and every week or so one of the Glen lads who had just the other day been a rollicking schoolboy went into khaki . `` It is bitter cold out tonight , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan , coming in out of the clear starlit crispness of the Canadian winter twilight . `` I wonder if the boys in the trenches are warm . '' `` How everything comes back to this war , '' cried Gertrude Oliver . `` We ca n't get away from it -- not even when we talk of the weather . I never go out these dark cold nights myself without thinking of the men in the trenches -- not only our men but everybody 's men . I would feel the same if there were nobody I knew at the front . When I snuggle down in my comfortable bed I am ashamed of being comfortable . It seems as if it were wicked of me to be so when many are not . '' `` I saw Mrs. Meredith down at the store , '' said Susan , `` and she tells me that they are really troubled over Bruce , he takes things so much to heart . He has cried himself to sleep for a week , over the starving Belgians . ` Oh , mother , ' he will say to her , so beseeching-like , ` surely the babies are never hungry -- oh , not the babies , mother ! Just say the babies are not hungry , mother . ' And she can not say it because it would not be true , and she is at her wits ' end . They try to keep such things from him but he finds them out and then they can not comfort him . It breaks my heart to read about them myself , Mrs. Dr. dear , and I can not console myself with the thought that the tales are not true . When I read a novel that makes me want to weep I just say severely to myself , ` Now , Susan Baker , you know that is all a pack of lies . ' But we must carry on . Jack Crawford says he is going to the war because he is tired of farming . I hope he will find it a pleasant change .
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