And none of them had to be driven to it . So we have a right to be proud . But pride -- '' Susan sighed bitterly -- `` pride is cold company and that there is no gainsaying . '' The moon sank lower into a black cloud in the west , the Glen went out in an eclipse of sudden shadow -- and thousands of miles away the Canadian boys in khaki -- the living and the dead -- were in possession of Vimy Ridge . Vimy Ridge is a name written in crimson and gold on the Canadian annals of the Great War . `` The British could n't take it and the French could n't take it , '' said a German prisoner to his captors , `` but you Canadians are such fools that you do n't know when a place ca n't be taken ! '' So the `` fools '' took it -- and paid the price . Jerry Meredith was seriously wounded at Vimy Ridge -- shot in the back , the telegram said . `` Poor Nan , '' said Mrs. Blythe , when the news came . She thought of her own happy girlhood at old Green Gables . There had been no tragedy like this in it . How the girls of to-day had to suffer ! When Nan came home from Redmond two weeks later her face showed what those weeks had meant to her . John Meredith , too , seemed to have grown old suddenly in them . Faith did not come home ; she was on her way across the Atlantic as a V.A.D. Di had tried to wring from her father consent to her going also , but had been told that for her mother 's sake it could not be given . So Di , after a flying visit home , went back to her Red Cross work in Kingsport . The mayflowers bloomed in the secret nooks of Rainbow Valley . Rilla was watching for them . Jem had once taken his mother the earliest mayflowers ; Walter brought them to her when Jem was gone ; last spring Shirley had sought them out for her ; now , Rilla thought she must take the boys ' place in this . But before she had discovered any , Bruce Meredith came to Ingleside one twilight with his hands full of delicate pink sprays .
He stalked up the steps XXXXX the veranda and laid them on Mrs. Blythe 's lap .
So across after as at from into like of to