But it is wonderful how Miranda has bloomed out since her marriage . She is n't the same girl at all . Even her eyes seem to have darkened and deepened -- though I suppose that is just because they glow with the greater intensity that has come to her . She makes her father stand round in a perfectly amazing fashion ; she runs up the flag whenever a yard of trench on the western front is taken ; and she comes up regularly to our Junior Red Cross ; and she does -- yes , she does -- put on funny little ` married woman ' airs that are quite killing . But she is the only war-bride in the Glen and surely nobody need grudge her the satisfaction she gets out of it . `` The Russian news is bad , too -- Kerensky 's government has fallen and Lenin is dictator of Russia . Somehow , it is very hard to keep up courage in the dull hopelessness of these grey autumn days of suspense and boding news . But we are beginning to ` get in a low , ' as old Highland Sandy says , over the approaching election . Conscription is the real issue at stake and it will be the most exciting election we ever had . All the women ` who have got de age ' -- to quote Jo Poirier , and who have husbands , sons , and brothers at the front , can vote . Oh , if I were only twenty-one ! Gertrude and Susan are both furious because they ca n't vote . '' ` It is not fair , ' Gertrude says passionately . ` There is Agnes Carr who can vote because her husband went . She did everything she could to prevent him from going , and now she is going to vote against the Union Government . Yet I have no vote , because my man at the front is only my sweetheart and not my husband ! '' `` As for Susan , when she reflects that she can not vote , while a rank old pacifist like Mr. Pryor can -- and will -- her comments are sulphurous . `` I really feel sorry for the Elliotts and Crawfords and MacAllisters over-harbour . They have always lined up in clearly divided camps of Liberal and Conservative , and now they are torn from their moorings -- I know I 'm mixing my metaphors dreadfully -- and set hopelessly adrift . It will kill some of those old Grits to vote for Sir Robert Borden 's side -- and yet they have to because they believe the time has come when we must have conscription .
And some poor Conservatives who are against conscription must vote XXXXX Laurier , who always has been anathema to them .
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