`` I dunno . But I 'm much afraid . '' `` One would suppose that England was in trouble over it already , up to her neck , Sophia Crawford , '' said Susan . `` But your ways of thinking are beyond me and always were . It is my opinion that the British Navy will settle Germany in a jiffy and that we are all getting worked up over nothing . '' Susan spat out the words as if she wanted to convince herself more than anybody else . She had her little store of homely philosophies to guide her through life , but she had nothing to buckler her against the thunderbolts of the week that had just passed . What had an honest , hard-working , Presbyterian old maid of Glen St. Mary to do with a war thousands of miles away ? Susan felt that it was indecent that she should have to be disturbed by it . `` The British army will settle Germany , '' shouted Norman . `` Just wait till it gets into line and the Kaiser will find that real war is a different thing from parading round Berlin with your moustaches cocked up . '' `` Britain has n't got an army , '' said Mrs. Norman emphatically . `` You need n't glare at me , Norman . Glaring wo n't make soldiers out of timothy stalks . A hundred thousand men will just be a mouthful for Germany 's millions . '' `` There 'll be some tough chewing in the mouthful , I reckon , '' persisted Norman valiantly . `` Germany 'll break her teeth on it . Do n't you tell me one Britisher is n't a match for ten foreigners . I could polish off a dozen of 'em myself with both hands tied behind my back ! '' `` I am told , '' said Susan , `` that old Mr. Pryor does not believe in this war .
I am told that he says England went into it just because she was jealous XXXXX Germany and that she did not really care in the least what happened to Belgium . ''
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