`` It may rain -- but do n't think rheumatism , Susan -- think violets , '' said Walter gaily -- rather too gaily , Rilla thought . Susan considered him unsympathetic . `` Indeed , Walter dear , I do not know what you mean by thinking violets , '' she responded stiffly , `` and rheumatism is not a thing to be joked about , as you may some day realize for yourself . I hope I am not of the kind that is always complaining of their aches and pains , especially now when the news is so terrible . Rheumatism is bad enough but I realize , and none better , that it is not to be compared to being gassed by the Huns . '' `` Oh , my God , no ! '' exclaimed Walter passionately . He turned and went back to the house . Susan shook her head . She disapproved entirely of such ejaculations . `` I hope he will not let his mother hear him talking like that , '' she thought as she stacked the hoes and rake away . Rilla was standing among the budding daffodils with tear-filled eyes . Her evening was spoiled ; she detested Susan , who had somehow hurt Walter ; and Jem -- had Jem been gassed ? Had he died in torture ? `` I ca n't endure this suspense any longer , '' said Rilla desperately . But she endured it as the others did for another week . Then a letter came from Jem . He was all right . `` I 've come through without a scratch , dad . Do n't know how I or any of us did it .
You 'll have seen all about it XXXXX the papers -- I ca n't write of it .
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