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Updated: June 9, 2025
There was some sinister significance in it. That kind of vivid dream always 'comes true' with me." "I hope it doesn't mean there's a storm coming up from the east to spoil the party," murmured Rilla. "Incorrigible fifteen!" said Miss Oliver dryly. "No, Rilla-my-Rilla, I don't think there is any danger that it foretells anything so awful as that."
But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear. "Is this Rilla-my-Rilla?" he asked in a low tone.
Still, having Nan and Di and Walter and Shirley home helped in the enduring of things. A letter and book came for her from Kenneth Ford, too; some sentences in the letter made her cheeks burn and her heart beat until the last paragraph, which sent an icy chill over everything. "My ankle is about as good as new. I'll be fit to join up in a couple of months more, Rilla-my-Rilla.
They all seemed rather stunned by the mere fact of Rilla adopting a war-baby; perhaps, too, the doctor had issued instructions. Walter, of course, never had teased her over anything; one day he told her she was a brick. "It took more courage for you to tackle that five pounds of new infant, Rilla-my-Rilla, than it would be for Jem to face a mile of Germans.
"Rilla-my-Rilla, there were girls as sweet and pure as you in Belgium and Flanders. You even you know what their fate was. We must make it impossible for such things to happen again while the world lasts. You'll help me, won't you?" "I'll try, Walter," she said. "Oh, I will try." As she clung to him with her face pressed against his shoulder she knew that it had to be.
Walter came wandering through the valley as Rilla sat there, with his head bent and his hands clasped behind him. When he saw Rilla he turned abruptly away; then as abruptly he turned and came back to her. "Rilla-my-Rilla, what are you thinking of?" "Everything is so changed, Walter," said Rilla wistfully. "Even you you're changed.
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