Can I come up to Ingleside tonight and see you ? '' `` Of courthe . '' Had he used `` you '' in the singular or plural sense ? Presently she would wring Jims ' neck -- oh , what was Ken saying ? `` See here , Rilla , can you arrange that there wo n't be more than a few dozen people round ? Understand ? I ca n't make my meaning clearer over this bally rural line . There are a dozen receivers down . '' Did she understand ! Yes , she understood . `` I 'll try , '' she said . `` I 'll be up about eight then . By-by . '' Rilla hung up the ` phone and flew to Jims . But she did not wring that injured infant 's neck . Instead she snatched him bodily out of his chair , crushed him against her face , kissed him rapturously on his milky mouth , and danced wildly around the room with him in her arms . After this Jims was relieved to find that she returned to sanity , gave him the rest of his dinner properly , and tucked him away for his afternoon nap with the little lullaby he loved best of all . She sewed at Red Cross shirts for the rest of the afternoon and built a crystal castle of dreams , all a-quiver with rainbows . Ken wanted to see her -- to see her alone . That could be easily managed .
Shirley would n't bother them , father and mother were going XXXXX the Manse , Miss Oliver never played gooseberry , and Jims always slept the clock round from seven to seven .
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