Before Mrs. Blythe could reply Susan stuck her head in at the door , never troubling over such frills of etiquette as knocking . Her eyes were suspiciously red but all she said was , `` Will I bring up your breakfast , Mrs. Dr. dear . '' `` No , no , Susan . We will all be down presently . Do you know -- that Walter has joined up . '' `` Yes , Mrs. Dr. dear . The doctor told me last night . I suppose the Almighty has His own reasons for allowing such things . We must submit and endeavour to look on the bright side . It may cure him of being a poet , at least '' -- Susan still persisted in thinking that poets and tramps were tarred with the same brush -- `` and that would be something . But thank God , '' she muttered in a lower tone , `` that Shirley is not old enough to go . '' `` Is n't that the same thing as thanking Him that some other woman 's son has to go in Shirley 's place ? '' asked the doctor , pausing on the threshold . `` No , it is not , doctor dear , '' said Susan defiantly , as she picked up Jims , who was opening his big dark eyes and stretching up his dimpled paws . `` Do not you put words in my mouth that I would never dream of uttering . I am a plain woman and can not argue with you , but I do not thank God that anybody has to go . I only know that it seems they do have to go , unless we all want to be Kaiserised -- for I can assure you that the Monroe doctrine , whatever it is , is nothing to tie to , with Woodrow Wilson behind it . The Huns , Dr. dear , will never be brought to brook by notes . And now , '' concluded Susan , tucking Jims in the crook of her gaunt arms and marching downstairs , `` having cried my cry and said my say I shall take a brace , and if I can not look pleasant I will look as pleasant as I can . '' CHAPTER XV UNTIL THE DAY BREAK `` The Germans have recaptured Premysl , '' said Susan despairingly , looking up from her newspaper , `` and now I suppose we will have to begin calling it by that uncivilised name again .
Cousin Sophia was XXXXX when the mail came and when she heard the news she hove a sigh up from the depths of her stomach , Mrs. Dr. dear , and said , ` Ah yes , and they will get Petrograd next I have no doubt . '
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