CHAPTER XXI `` LOVE AFFAIRS ARE HORRIBLE '' Ingleside 20th June 1916 `` We have been so busy , and day after day has brought such exciting news , good and bad , that I have n't had time and composure to write in my diary for weeks . I like to keep it up regularly , for father says a diary of the years of the war should be a very interesting thing to hand down to one 's children . The trouble is , I like to write a few personal things in this blessed old book that might not be exactly what I 'd want my children to read . I feel that I shall be a far greater stickler for propriety in regard to them than I am for myself ! `` The first week in June was another dreadful one . The Austrians seemed just on the point of overrunning Italy : and then came the first awful news of the Battle of Jutland , which the Germans claimed as a great victory . Susan was the only one who carried on . ` You need never tell me that the Kaiser has defeated the British Navy , ' she said , with a contemptuous sniff . ` It is all a German lie and that you may tie to . ' And when a couple of days later we found out that she was right and that it had been a British victory instead of a British defeat , we had to put up with a great many ' I told you so 's , ' but we endured them very comfortably . `` It took Kitchener 's death to finish Susan . For the first time I saw her down and out . We all felt the shock of it but Susan plumbed the depths of despair . The news came at night by ` phone but Susan would n't believe it until she saw the Enterprise headline the next day . She did not cry or faint or go into hysterics ; but she forgot to put salt in the soup , and that is something Susan never did in my recollection . Mother and Miss Oliver and I cried but Susan looked at us in stony sarcasm and said , ` The Kaiser and his six sons are all alive and thriving . So the world is not left wholly desolate . Why cry , Mrs. Dr. dear ? ' Susan continued in this stony , hopeless condition for twenty-four hours , and then Cousin Sophia appeared and began to condole with her . '' ` This is terrible news , ai n't it , Susan ?
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