`` I never thought I would live to see the day when I would be interested in a Yankee election , Mrs. Dr. dear . It only goes to show we can never know what we will come to in this world , and therefore we should not be proud . '' Susan stayed up late on the evening of the eleventh , ostensibly to finish a pair of socks . But she ` phoned down to Carter Flagg 's store at intervals , and when the first report came through that Hughes had been elected she stalked solemnly upstairs to Mrs. Blythe 's room and announced it in a thrilling whisper from the foot of the bed . `` I thought if you were not asleep you would be interested in knowing it . I believe it is for the best . Perhaps he will just fall to writing notes , too , Mrs. Dr. dear , but I hope for better things . I never was very partial to whiskers , but one can not have everything . '' When news came in the morning that after all Wilson was re-elected , Susan tacked to catch another breeze of optimism . `` Well , better a fool you know than a fool you do not know , as the old proverb has it , '' she remarked cheerfully . `` Not that I hold Woodrow to be a fool by any means , though by times you would not think he has the sense he was born with . But he is a good letter writer at least , and we do not know if the Hughes man is even that . All things being considered I commend the Yankees . They have shown good sense and I do not mind admitting it . Cousin Sophia wanted them to elect Roosevelt , and is much disgruntled because they would not give him a chance . I had a hankering for him myself , but we must believe that Providence over-rules these matters and be satisfied -- though what the Almighty means in this affair of Rumania I can not fathom -- saying it with all reverence . '' Susan fathomed it -- or thought she did -- when the Asquith ministry went down and Lloyd George became Premier . `` Mrs. Dr. dear , Lloyd George is at the helm at last . I have been praying for this for many a day . Now we shall soon see a blessed change .
It took the Rumanian disaster to bring it about , no less , and that is the meaning of it , XXXXX I could not see it before .
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