But when he heard about the Lusitania he told his mother that he understood now why God did n't answer his prayer -- He was too busy attending to the souls of all the people who went down on the Lusitania . That child 's brain is a hundred years older than his body , Mrs. Dr. dear . As for the Lusitania , it is an awful occurrence , whatever way you look at it . But Woodrow Wilson is going to write a note about it , so why worry ? A pretty president ! '' and Susan banged her pots about wrathfully . President Wilson was rapidly becoming anathema in Susan 's kitchen . Mary Vance dropped in one evening to tell the Ingleside folks that she had withdrawn all opposition to Miller Douglas 's enlisting . `` This Lusitania business was too much for me , '' said Mary brusquely . `` When the Kaiser takes to drowning innocent babies it 's high time somebody told him where he gets off at . This thing must be fought to a finish . It 's been soaking into my mind slow but I 'm on now . So I up and told Miller he could go as far as I was concerned . Old Kitty Alec wo n't be converted though . If every ship in the world was submarined and every baby drowned , Kitty would n't turn a hair . But I flatter myself that it was me kept Miller back all along and not the fair Kitty . I may have deceived myself -- but we shall see . '' They did see . The next Sunday Miller Douglas walked into the Glen Church beside Mary Vance in khaki . And Mary was so proud of him that her white eyes fairly blazed .
Joe Milgrave , back under the gallery , looked at Miller and Mary and then at Miranda Pryor , and sighed so heavily that every one within a radius XXXXX three pews heard him and knew what his trouble was .
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