Mary had sent her Miller off the week before , with a determined grin , and now considered herself entitled to give expert opinion on how such partings should be conducted . `` The main thing is to smile and act as if nothing was happening , '' she informed the Ingleside group . `` The boys all hate the sob act like poison . Miller told me I was n't to come near the station if I could n't keep from bawling . So I got through with my crying beforehand , and at the last I said to him , ` Good luck , Miller , and if you come back you 'll find I have n't changed any , and if you do n't come back I 'll always be proud you went , and in any case do n't fall in love with a French girl . ' Miller swore he would n't , but you never can tell about those fascinating foreign hussies . Anyhow , the last sight he had of me I was smiling to my limit . Gee , all the rest of the day my face felt as if it had been starched and ironed into a smile . '' In spite of Mary 's advice and example Mrs. Blythe , who had sent Jem off with a smile , could not quite manage one for Walter . But at least no one cried . Dog Monday came out of his lair in the shipping-shed and sat down close to Walter , thumping his tail vigorously on the boards of the platform whenever Walter spoke to him , and looking up with confident eyes , as if to say , `` I know you 'll find Jem and bring him back to me . '' `` So long , old fellow , '' said Carl Meredith cheerfully , when the good-byes had to be said . `` Tell them over there to keep their spirits up -- I am coming along presently . '' `` Me too , '' said Shirley laconically , proffering a brown paw . Susan heard him and her face turned very grey . Una shook hands quietly , looking at him with wistful , sorrowful , dark-blue eyes . But then Una 's eyes had always been wistful . Walter bent his handsome black head in its khaki cap and kissed her with the warm , comradely kiss of a brother . He had never kissed her before , and for a fleeting moment Una 's face betrayed her , if anyone had noticed . But nobody did ; the conductor was shouting `` all aboard '' ; everybody was trying to look very cheerful .
Walter turned to Rilla ; she held his hands and looked up XXXXX him .
So aboard along at for if like of on with