`` Oh , Walter , one is enough for any family . '' The holidays were an unhappy time for her . Still , having Nan and Di and Walter and Shirley home helped in the enduring of things . A letter and book came for her from Kenneth Ford , too ; some sentences in the letter made her cheeks burn and her heart beat -- until the last paragraph , which sent an icy chill over everything . `` My ankle is about as good as new . I 'll be fit to join up in a couple of months more , Rilla-my-Rilla . It will be some feeling to get into khaki all right . Little Ken will be able to look the whole world in the face then and owe not any man . It 's been rotten lately , since I 've been able to walk without limping . People who do n't know look at me as much as to say ` Slacker ! ' Well , they wo n't have the chance to look it much longer . '' `` I hate this war , '' said Rilla bitterly , as she gazed out into the maple grove that was a chill glory of pink and gold in the winter sunset . `` Nineteen-fourteen has gone , '' said Dr. Blythe on New Year 's Day . `` Its sun , which rose fairly , has set in blood . What will nineteen-fifteen bring ? '' `` Victory ! '' said Susan , for once laconic . `` Do you really believe we 'll win the war , Susan ? '' said Miss Oliver drearily . She had come over from Lowbridge to spend the day and see Walter and the girls before they went back to Redmond .
She was XXXXX a rather blue and cynical mood and inclined to look on the dark side . ''
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