She wore her old rose kimono , and her hair was hanging down her back in a long thick braid , and her eyes were shining . She looked just like a young girl . '' ` There is word from Jem ? ' she said . `` How did she know ? I had n't said a word at the phone except ` Yes -- yes -- yes . ' She says she does n't know how she knew , but she did know . She was awake and she heard the ring and she knew that there was word from Jem . '' ` He 's alive -- he 's well -- he 's in Holland , ' I said . `` Mother came out into the hall and said , ' I must get your father on the ` phone and tell him . He is in the Upper Glen . ' `` She was very calm and quiet -- not a bit like I would have expected her to be . But then I was n't either . I went and woke up Gertrude and Susan and told them . Susan said ` Thank God , ' firstly , and secondly she said ` Did I not tell you Dog Monday knew ? ' and thirdly , ` I 'll go down and make a cup of tea ' -- and she stalked down in her nightdress to make it . She did make it -- and made mother and Gertrude drink it -- but I went back to my room and shut my door and locked it , and I knelt by my window and cried -- just as Gertrude did when her great news came . `` I think I know at last exactly what I shall feel like on the resurrection morning . '' 4th October 1918 `` Today Jem 's letter came . It has been in the house only six hours and it is almost read to pieces .
The post-mistress told everybody in the Glen it had come , and everybody came up XXXXX hear the news .
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