If you pay too much for one thing you must cut off somewhere else and that is not satisfactory . But if you think you did right , Rilla , I have no more to say . I leave it to your conscience . ' `` I wish mother would not leave things to my conscience ! And anyway , what was I to do ? I could n't take that hat back -- I had worn it to a concert in town -- I had to keep it ! I was so uncomfortable that I flew into a temper -- a cold , calm , deadly temper . '' ` Mother , ' I said haughtily , ' I am sorry you disapprove of my hat -- ' '' ` Not of the hat exactly , ' said mother , ` though I consider it in doubtful taste for so young a girl -- but of the price you paid for it . ' `` Being interrupted did n't improve my temper , so I went on , colder and calmer and deadlier than ever , just as if mother had not spoken . '' ' -- but I have to keep it now . However , I promise you that I will not get another hat for three years or for the duration of the war , if it lasts longer than that . Even you ' -- oh , the sarcasm I put into the ` you ' -- ` can not say that what I paid was too much when spread over at least three years . ' '' ` You will be very tired of that hat before three years , Rilla , ' said mother , with a provoking grin , which , being interpreted , meant that I would n't stick it out . '' ` Tired or not , I will wear it that long , ' I said : and then I marched upstairs and cried to think that I had been sarcastic to mother . `` I hate that hat already . But three years or the duration of the war , I said , and three years or the duration of the war it shall be . I vowed and I shall keep my vow , cost what it will . `` That is one of the ` catawampus ' things . The other is that I have quarrelled with Irene Howard -- or she quarrelled with me -- or , no , we both quarrelled . `` The Junior Red Cross met here yesterday .
The hour of meeting was half-past two but Irene came at half-past one , because she got the chance XXXXX a drive down from the Upper Glen .
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