When the train had gone Rilla rejoined the little trembling Miranda . `` Well , he 's gone , '' said Miranda , `` and he may never come back -- but I 'm his wife , and I 'm going to be worthy of him . I 'm going home . '' `` Do n't you think you had better come with me now ? '' asked Rilla doubtfully . Nobody knew yet how Mr. Pryor had taken the matter . `` No . If Joe can face the Huns I guess I can face father , '' said Miranda daringly . `` A soldier 's wife ca n't be a coward . Come on , Wilfy . I 'll go straight home and meet the worst . '' There was nothing very dreadful to face , however . Perhaps Mr. Pryor had reflected that housekeepers were hard to get and that there were many Milgrave homes open to Miranda -- also , that there was such a thing as a separation allowance . At all events , though he told her grumpily that she had made a nice fool of herself , and would live to regret it , he said nothing worse , and Mrs. Joe put on her apron and went to work as usual , while Sir Wilfrid Laurier , who had a poor opinion of lighthouses for winter residences , went to sleep in his pet nook behind the woodbox , a thankful dog that he was done with war-weddings . CHAPTER XIX `` THEY SHALL NOT PASS '' One cold grey morning in February Gertrude Oliver wakened with a shiver , slipped into Rilla 's room , and crept in beside her . `` Rilla -- I 'm frightened -- frightened as a baby -- I 've had another of my strange dreams . Something terrible is before us -- I know . '' `` What was it ? '' asked Rilla . `` I was standing again on the veranda steps -- just as I stood in that dream on the night before the lighthouse dance , and in the sky a huge black , menacing thunder cloud rolled up from the east .
I could see its shadow racing before it and when it enveloped me I shivered XXXXX icy cold .
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