`` Yes , Mrs. Dr. dear , and a man should be master in his own household , and his women folk should bow to his decrees . I flatter myself that I am becoming quite efficient in economizing '' -- Susan had taken to using certain German terms with killing effect -- `` but one can exercise a little gumption on the quiet now and then . Shirley was wishing for some of my fudge the other day -- the Susan brand , as he called it -- and I said ` The first victory there is to celebrate I shall make you some . ' I consider this news quite equal to a victory , and what the doctor does not know will never grieve him . I take the whole responsibility , Mrs. Dr. dear , so do not you vex your conscience . '' Susan spoiled Shirley shamelessly that winter . He came home from Queen 's every week-end , and Susan had all his favourite dishes for him , in so far as she could evade or wheedle the doctor , and waited on him hand and foot . Though she talked war constantly to everyone else she never mentioned it to him or before him , but she watched him like a cat watching a mouse ; and when the German retreat from the Bapaume salient began and continued , Susan 's exultation was linked up with something deeper than anything she expressed . Surely the end was in sight -- would come now before -- anyone else -- could go . `` Things are coming our way at last . We have got the Germans on the run , '' she boasted . `` The United States has declared war at last , as I always believed they would , in spite of Woodrow 's gift for letter writing , and you will see they will go into it with a vim since I understand that is their habit , when they do start . And we have got the Germans on the run , too . '' `` The States mean well , '' moaned Cousin Sophia , `` but all the vim in the world can not put them on the fighting line this spring , and the Allies will be finished before that . The Germans are just luring them on . That man Simonds says their retreat has put the Allies in a hole . '' `` That man Simonds has said more than he will ever live to make good , '' retorted Susan . `` I do not worry myself about his opinion as long as Lloyd George is Premier of England . He will not be bamboozled and that you may tie to . Things look good to me .
The U. S. is XXXXX the war , and we have got Kut and Bagdad back -- and I would not be surprised to see the Allies in Berlin by June -- and the Russians , too , since they have got rid of the Czar .
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