And once I heard her give a dreadful sudden little cry as if she had been stabbed . I could n't sleep for suffering with her ; and I could n't help her . I thought the night would never end . But it did ; and then ` joy came in the morning ' as the Bible says . Only it did n't come exactly in the morning but well along in the afternoon . The telephone rang and I answered it . It was old Mrs. Grant speaking from Charlottetown , and her news was that it was all a mistake -- Robert was n't killed at all ; he had only been slightly wounded in the arm and was safe in the hospital out of harm 's way for a time anyhow . They had n't learned yet how the mistake had happened but supposed there must have been another Robert Grant . `` I hung up the telephone and flew to Rainbow Valley . I 'm sure I did fly -- I ca n't remember my feet ever touching the ground . I met Gertrude on her way home from school in the glade of spruces where we used to play , and I just gasped out the news to her . I ought to have had more sense , of course . But I was so crazy with joy and excitement that I never stopped to think . Gertrude just dropped there among the golden young ferns as if she had been shot . The fright it gave me ought to make me sensible -- in this respect at least -- for the rest of my life . I thought I had killed her -- I remembered that her mother had died very suddenly from heart failure when quite a young woman . It seemed years to me before I discovered that her heart was still beating . A pretty time I had ! I never saw anybody faint before , and I knew there was nobody up at the house to help , because everybody else had gone to the station to meet Di and Nan coming home from Redmond . But I knew -- theoretically -- how people in a faint should be treated , and now I know it practically .
Luckily the brook was handy , and after I had worked frantically over her XXXXX a while Gertrude came back to life .
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