It 's a little hard to remember all the heroines . Just the same , it was her second new silk dress in one year and that when everybody is -- or should be -- trying to ` save and serve . ' `` I had to bring out my green velvet hat again lately and begin wearing it . I hung on to my blue straw sailor as long as I could . How I hate the green velvet hat ! It is so elaborate and conspicuous . I do n't see how I could ever have liked it . But I vowed to wear it and wear it I will . `` Shirley and I went down to the station this morning to take Little Dog Monday a bang-up Christmas dinner . Dog Monday waits and watches there still , with just as much hope and confidence as ever . Sometimes he hangs around the station house and talks to people and the rest of his time he sits at his little kennel door and watches the track unwinkingly . We never try to coax him home now : we know it is of no use . When Jem comes back , Monday will come home with him ; and if Jem -- never comes back -- Monday will wait there for him as long as his dear dog heart goes on beating . `` Fred Arnold was here last night . He was eighteen in November and is going to enlist just as soon as his mother is over an operation she has to have . He has been coming here very often lately and though I like him so much it makes me uncomfortable , because I am afraid he is thinking that perhaps I could care something for him . I ca n't tell him about Ken -- because , after all , what is there to tell ? And yet I do n't like to behave coldly and distantly when he will be going away so soon . It is very perplexing . I remember I used to think it would be such fun to have dozens of beaux -- and now I 'm worried to death because two are too many .
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