`` You can help Nan and Di make them up . And Rilla , do n't you think you could organize a Junior Red Cross among the young girls ? I think they would like it better and do better work by themselves than if mixed up with the older people . '' `` But , mother -- I 've never done anything like that . '' `` We will all have to do a great many things in the months ahead of us that we have never done before , Rilla . '' `` Well '' -- Rilla took the plunge -- `` I 'll try , mother -- if you 'll tell me how to begin . I have been thinking it all over and I have decided that I must be as brave and heroic and unselfish as I can possibly be . '' Mrs. Blythe did not smile at Rilla 's italics . Perhaps she did not feel like smiling or perhaps she detected a real grain of serious purpose behind Rilla 's romantic pose . So here was Rilla hemming sheets and organizing a Junior Red Cross in her thoughts as she hemmed ; moreover , she was enjoying it -- the organizing that is , not the hemming . It was interesting and Rilla discovered a certain aptitude in herself for it that surprised her . Who would be president ? Not she . The older girls would not like that . Irene Howard ? No , somehow Irene was not quite as popular as she deserved to be . Marjorie Drew ? No , Marjorie had n't enough backbone . She was too prone to agree with the last speaker . Betty Mead -- calm , capable , tactful Betty -- the very one !
And Una Meredith for treasurer ; and , XXXXX they were very insistent , they might make her , Rilla , secretary .
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