`` Well , we have got one week over -- now for the next , '' said Susan staunchly . `` I feel like a prisoner on the rack when they stopped turning it , '' Miss Oliver said to Rilla , as they went to church on Easter morning . `` But I am not off the rack . The torture may begin again at any time . '' `` I doubted God last Sunday , '' said Rilla , `` but I do n't doubt him today . Evil can not win . Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh . '' Nevertheless her faith was often tried in the dark spring that followed . Armageddon was not , as they had hoped , a matter of a few days . It stretched out into weeks and months . Again and again Hindenburg struck his savage , sudden blows , with alarming , though futile success . Again and again the military critics declared the situation extremely perilous . Again and again Cousin Sophia agreed with the military critics . `` If the Allies go back three miles more the war is lost , '' she wailed . `` Is the British navy anchored in those three miles ? '' demanded Susan scornfully . `` It is the opinion of a man who knows all about it , '' said Cousin Sophia solemnly . `` There is no such person , '' retorted Susan . `` As for the military critics , they do not know one blessed thing about it , any more than you or I . They have been mistaken times out of number .
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