Mrs. Matilda Pitman shook a knitting-needle playfully at Rilla . `` Sit down and take your breakfast , '' she said . `` Mrs. Matilda Pitman commands you . Everybody obeys Mrs. Matilda Pitman -- even Robert and Amelia . You must obey her too . '' Rilla did obey her . She sat down and , such was the influence of Mrs. Matilda Pitman 's mesmeric eye , she ate a tolerable breakfast . The obedient Amelia never spoke ; Mrs. Matilda Pitman did not speak either ; but she knitted furiously and chuckled . When Rilla had finished , Mrs. Matilda Pitman rolled up her sock . `` Now you can go if you want to , '' she said , `` but you do n't have to go . You can stay here as long as you want to and I 'll make Amelia cook your meals for you . '' The independent Miss Blythe , whom a certain clique of Junior Red Cross girls accused of being domineering and `` bossy , '' was thoroughly cowed . `` Thank you , '' she said meekly , `` but we must really go . '' `` Well , then , '' said Mrs. Matilda Pitman , throwing open the door , `` your conveyance is ready for you . I told Robert he must hitch up and drive you to the station . I enjoy making Robert do things . It 's almost the only sport I have left . I 'm over eighty and most things have lost their flavour except bossing Robert . '' Robert sat before the door on the front seat of a trim , double-seated , rubber-tired buggy . He must have heard every word his mother-in-law said but he gave no sign .
`` I do wish , '' said Rilla , plucking up what little spirit she had left , `` that you would let me -- oh -- ah -- '' then she quailed again before Mrs. Matilda Pitman 's eye -- `` recompense you for -- for -- '' `` Mrs. Matilda Pitman said before -- and meant it -- that she does n't take pay for entertaining strangers , nor let other people where she lives do it , much XXXXX their natural meanness would like to do it .
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