She says she does n't know how she knew , but she did know . She was awake and she heard the ring and she knew that there was word from Jem . '' ` He 's alive -- he 's well -- he 's in Holland , ' I said . `` Mother came out into the hall and said , ' I must get your father on the ` phone and tell him . He is in the Upper Glen . ' `` She was very calm and quiet -- not a bit like I would have expected her to be . But then I was n't either . I went and woke up Gertrude and Susan and told them . Susan said ` Thank God , ' firstly , and secondly she said ` Did I not tell you Dog Monday knew ? ' and thirdly , ` I 'll go down and make a cup of tea ' -- and she stalked down in her nightdress to make it . She did make it -- and made mother and Gertrude drink it -- but I went back to my room and shut my door and locked it , and I knelt by my window and cried -- just as Gertrude did when her great news came . `` I think I know at last exactly what I shall feel like on the resurrection morning . '' 4th October 1918 `` Today Jem 's letter came . It has been in the house only six hours and it is almost read to pieces . The post-mistress told everybody in the Glen it had come , and everybody came up to hear the news . `` Jem was badly wounded in the thigh -- and he was picked up and taken to prison , so delirious with fever that he did n't know what was happening to him or where he was . It was weeks before he came to his senses and was able to write . Then he did write -- but it never came . He was n't treated at all badly at his camp -- only the food was poor . He had nothing to eat but a little black bread and boiled turnips and now and then a little soup with black peas in it .
And we sat down every one XXXXX those days to three good square luxurious meals !
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