I seemed to see it just before me -- and you standing laughing on the other side of it -- and I thought it was all over with me . And I did n't care . Honestly , I did n't care . I just felt a dreadful childish fear of loneliness and of those dead men around me , and a sort of wonder how this could have happened to me . Then they found me and carted me off and before long I discovered that there was n't really anything wrong with me . I 'm going back to the trenches tomorrow . Every man is needed there that can be got . '' `` Laughter is gone out of the world , '' said Faith Meredith , who had come over to report on her letters . `` I remember telling old Mrs. Taylor long ago that the world was a world of laughter . But it is n't so any longer . '' `` It 's a shriek of anguish , '' said Gertrude Oliver . `` We must keep a little laughter , girls , '' said Mrs. Blythe . `` A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes -- only sometimes , '' she added under her breath . She had found it very hard to laugh during the three weeks she had just lived through -- she , Anne Blythe , to whom laughter had always come so easily and freshly . And what hurt most was that Rilla 's laughter had grown so rare -- Rilla whom she used to think laughed over-much . Was all the child 's girlhood to be so clouded ? Yet how strong and clever and womanly she was growing ! How patiently she knitted and sewed and manipulated those uncertain Junior Reds ! And how wonderful she was with Jims . `` She really could not do better for that child than if she had raised a baker 's dozen , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' Susan had avowed solemnly .
`` Little did I ever expect it of her on the day she landed here XXXXX that soup tureen . ''
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