Is it true -- is it official ? Thank you -- thank you . '' Gertrude turned and faced the room dramatically , her dark eyes flashing , her dark face flushed with feeling . All at once the sun broke through the thick clouds and poured through the big crimson maple outside the window . Its reflected glow enveloped her in a weird immaterial flame . She looked like a priestess performing some mystic , splendid rite . `` Germany and Austria are suing for peace , '' she said . Rilla went crazy for a few minutes . She sprang up and danced around the room , clapping her hands , laughing , crying . `` Sit down , child , '' said Mrs. Clow , who never got excited over anything , and so had missed a tremendous amount of trouble and delight in her journey through life . `` Oh , '' cried Rilla , `` I have walked the floor for hours in despair and anxiety in these past four years . Now let me walk in joy . It was worth living long dreary years for this minute , and it would be worth living them again just to look back to it . Susan , let 's run up the flag -- and we must phone the news to every one in the Glen . '' `` Can we have as much sugar as we want to now ? '' asked Jims eagerly . It was a never-to-be-forgotten afternoon . As the news spread excited people ran about the village and dashed up to Ingleside . The Merediths came over and stayed to supper and everybody talked and nobody listened . Cousin Sophia tried to protest that Germany and Austria were not to be trusted and it was all part of a plot , but nobody paid the least attention to her .
`` This Sunday makes up for that one XXXXX March , '' said Susan .
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