I've got a date to meet Jem here, you know, and there's a train
goes through at eight.'
"It's lovely to have Walter back again though he seems quiet and sad,
just as he was at Christmas. But I'm going to love him hard and cheer
him up and make him laugh as he used to. It seems to me that every day
of my life Walter means more to me.
"The other evening Susan happened to say that the mayflowers were out in
Rainbow Valley. I chanced to be looking at mother when Susan spoke. Her
face changed and she gave a queer little choked cry. Most of the time
mother is so spunky and gay you would never guess what she feels inside;
but now and then some little thing is too much for her and we see under
the surface. 'Mayflowers!' she said. 'Jem brought me mayflowers last
year!' and she got up and went out of the room. I would have rushed off
to Rainbow Valley and brought her an armful of mayflowers, but I knew
that wasn't what she wanted. And after Walter got home last night he
slipped away to the valley and brought mother home all the mayflowers he
could find. Nobody had said a word to him about it--he just remembered
himself that Jem used to bring mother the first mayflowers and so he
brought them in Jem's place. It shows how tender and thoughtful he is.
And yet there are people who send him cruel letters!
"It seems strange that we can go in with ordinary life just as if
nothing were happening overseas that concerned us, just as if any day
might not bring us awful news.
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