She got Susan and me a tip-top breakfast and made us eat it , and ` bossed the life out of us , ' as Susan says , for two days , until the roads were opened so that she could get home . Jims was almost well by that time , and father turned up . He heard our tale without saying much . Father is rather scornful generally about what he calls ` old wives ' remedies . ' He laughed a little and said , ` After this , Mary Vance will expect me to call her in for consultation in all my serious cases . ' `` So Christmas was not so hard as I expected it to be ; and now the New Year is coming -- and we are still hoping for the ` Big Push ' that will end the war -- and Little Dog Monday is getting stiff and rheumatic from his cold vigils , but still he ` carries on , ' and Shirley continues to read the exploits of the aces . Oh , nineteen-seventeen , what will you bring ? '' CHAPTER XXV SHIRLEY GOES `` No , Woodrow , there will be no peace without victory , '' said Susan , sticking her knitting needle viciously through President Wilson 's name in the newspaper column . `` We Canadians mean to have peace and victory , too . You , if it pleases you , Woodrow , can have the peace without the victory '' -- and Susan stalked off to bed with the comfortable consciousness of having got the better of the argument with the President . But a few days later she rushed to Mrs. Blythe in red-hot excitement . `` Mrs. Dr. dear , what do you think ? A ` phone message has just come through from Charlottetown that Woodrow Wilson has sent that German ambassador man to the right about at last . They tell me that means war . So I begin to think that Woodrow 's heart is in the right place after all , wherever his head may be , and I am going to commandeer a little sugar and celebrate the occasion with some fudge , despite the howls of the Food Board . I thought that submarine business would bring things to a crisis . I told Cousin Sophia so when she said it was the beginning of the end for the Allies . '' `` Do n't let the doctor hear of the fudge , Susan , '' said Anne , with a smile . `` You know he has laid down very strict rules for us along the lines of economy the government has asked for . '' `` 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 XXXXX the quiet now and then .
So about along by for from if of on without