`` Well '' -- Rilla took the plunge -- `` I 'll try , mother -- if you 'll tell me how to begin . I have been thinking it all over and I have decided that I must be as brave and heroic and unselfish as I can possibly be . '' Mrs. Blythe did not smile at Rilla 's italics . Perhaps she did not feel like smiling or perhaps she detected a real grain of serious purpose behind Rilla 's romantic pose . So here was Rilla hemming sheets and organizing a Junior Red Cross in her thoughts as she hemmed ; moreover , she was enjoying it -- the organizing that is , not the hemming . It was interesting and Rilla discovered a certain aptitude in herself for it that surprised her . Who would be president ? Not she . The older girls would not like that . Irene Howard ? No , somehow Irene was not quite as popular as she deserved to be . Marjorie Drew ? No , Marjorie had n't enough backbone . She was too prone to agree with the last speaker . Betty Mead -- calm , capable , tactful Betty -- the very one ! And Una Meredith for treasurer ; and , if they were very insistent , they might make her , Rilla , secretary . As for the various committees , they must be chosen after the Juniors were organized , but Rilla knew just who should be put on which . They would meet around -- and there must be no eats -- Rilla knew she would have a pitched battle with Olive Kirk over that -- and everything should be strictly business-like and constitutional . Her minute book should be covered in white with a Red Cross on the cover -- and would n't it be nice to have some kind of uniform which they could all wear at the concerts they would have to get up to raise money -- something simple but smart ? `` You have basted the top hem of that sheet on one side and the bottom hem on the other , '' said Di .
Rilla picked out her stitches and reflected XXXXX she hated sewing .
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