When will the others come?
"And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if
he does. But, oh, I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers
return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen.
We will not see them--but they will be there!"
1st September 1918
"Mother and I went into Charlottetown yesterday to see the moving
picture, "Hearts of the World." I made an awful goose of myself--father
will never stop teasing me about it for the rest of my life. But it all
seemed so horribly real--and I was so intensely interested that I
forgot everything but the scenes I saw enacted before my eyes. And then,
quite near the last came a terribly exciting one. The heroine was
struggling with a horrible German soldier who was trying to drag her
away. I knew she had a knife--I had seen her hide it, to have it in
readiness--and I couldn't understand why she didn't produce it and
finish the brute. I thought she must have forgotten it, and just at the
tensest moment of the scene I lost my head altogether. I just stood
right up on my feet in that crowded house and shrieked at the top of my
voice--'The knife is in your stocking--the knife is in your stocking!'
"I created a sensation!
"The funny part was, that just as I said it, the girl did snatch out the
knife and stab the soldier with it!
"Everybody in the house laughed.
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