The job is n't finished -- it is n't really begun . The old world is destroyed and we must build up the new one . It will be the task of years . I 've seen enough of war to realize that we 've got to make a world where wars ca n't happen . We 've given Prussianism its mortal wound but it is n't dead yet and it is n't confined to Germany either . It is n't enough to drive out the old spirit -- we 've got to bring in the new . ' `` I 'm writing down those words of Jem 's in my diary so that I can read them over occasionally and get courage from them , when moods come when I find it not so easy to ` keep faith . ' '' Rilla closed her journal with a little sigh . Just then she was not finding it easy to keep faith . All the rest seemed to have some special aim or ambition about which to build up their lives -- she had none . And she was very lonely , horribly lonely . Jem had come back -- but he was not the laughing boy-brother who had gone away in 1914 and he belonged to Faith . Walter would never come back . She had not even Jims left . All at once her world seemed wide and empty -- that is , it had seemed wide and empty from the moment yesterday when she had read in a Montreal paper a fortnight-old list of returned soldiers in which was the name of Captain Kenneth Ford . So Ken was home -- and he had not even written her that he was coming . He had been in Canada two weeks and she had not had a line from him . Of course he had forgotten -- if there was ever anything to forget -- a handclasp -- a kiss -- a look -- a promise asked under the influence of a passing emotion . It was all absurd -- she had been a silly , romantic , inexperienced goose . Well , she would be wiser in the future -- very wise -- and very discreet -- and very contemptuous of men and their ways .
`` I suppose I 'd better go with Una and take up Household Science too , '' she thought , as she stood by her window and looked down through a delicate emerald tangle of young vines on Rainbow Valley , lying in a wonderful lilac light XXXXX sunset .
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