Rilla , who in spite of Jims , had been trying her best to look rapt and romantic , as beseemed a war bridesmaid , gave up the hopeless attempt , and devoted her energies to choking down untimely merriment . She dared not look at anybody in the room , especially Mrs. Dead Angus , for fear all her suppressed mirth should suddenly explode in a most un-young-ladylike yell of laughter . But married they were , and then they had a wedding-supper in the dining-room which was so lavish and bountiful that you would have thought it was the product of a month 's labour . Everybody had brought something . Mrs. Dead Angus had brought a large apple-pie , which she placed on a chair in the dining-room and then absently sat down on it . Neither her temper nor her black silk wedding garment was improved thereby , but the pie was never missed at the gay bridal feast . Mrs. Dead Angus eventually took it home with her again . Whiskers-on-the-moon 's pacifist pig should not get it , anyhow . That evening Mr. and Mrs. Joe , accompanied by the recovered Sir Wilfrid , departed for the Four Winds Lighthouse , which was kept by Joe 's uncle and in which they meant to spend their brief honeymoon . Una Meredith and Rilla and Susan washed the dishes , tidied up , left a cold supper and Miranda 's pitiful little note on the table for Mr. Pryor , and walked home , while the mystic veil of dreamy , haunted winter twilight wrapped itself over the Glen . `` I would really not have minded being a war-bride myself , '' remarked Susan sentimentally . But Rilla felt rather flat -- perhaps as a reaction to all the excitement and rush of the past thirty-six hours . She was disappointed somehow -- the whole affair had been so ludicrous , and Miranda and Joe so lachrymose and commonplace . `` If Miranda had n't given that wretched dog such an enormous dinner he would n't have had that fit , '' she said crossly . `` I warned her -- but she said she could n't starve the poor dog -- he would soon be all she had left , etc. . I could have shaken her . '' `` The best man was more excited than Joe was , '' said Susan . `` He wished Miranda many happy returns of the day . She did not look very happy , but perhaps you could not expect that under the circumstances . '' `` Anyhow , '' thought Rilla , `` I can write a perfectly killing account of it all to the boys .
How Jem will howl XXXXX Sir Wilfrid 's part in it ! ''
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