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conversations.value: Rilla of Ingleside: Set almost a decade after Rainbow Valley, Europe is on the brink of the First World War, and Anne\'s youngest daughter Rilla is an irrepressible almost-15-year-old, excited about her first adult party and blissfully unaware of the chaos that the Western world is about to enter.\nHer parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun.\n(In an aside, it is revealed that Marilla has died; her date of death is not specified but Rilla states it was before she was old enough to know her very well) Once the Continent descends into war, Jem Blythe and Jerry Meredith promptly enlist, upsetting Anne, Nan, and Faith Meredith (who Rilla suspects is engaged to Jem).\nRilla\'s brother Walter, who is of age, does not enlist, ostensibly due to a recent bout with typhoid but truly because he fears the ugliness of war and death.\nHe confides in Rilla that he feels he is a coward.\nThe enlisted boys report to Kingsport for training.\nJem\'s dog, Dog Monday, takes up a vigil at the Glen train station waiting for Jem to come back.\nRilla\'s siblings Nan, Di, and Walter return to Redmond College, and Shirley returns to Queen\'s Academy, leaving Rilla anxiously alone at home with her parents, their spinster housekeeper Susan Baker, and Gertrude Oliver, a teacher who is boarding with the Blythes while her fiance reports to the front.\nAs the war drags on, Rilla matures, organizing the Junior Red Cross in her village.\nWhile collecting donations for the war effort, she comes across a house where a young mother has just died with her husband away at war, leaving no one to care for her two-week-old son.\nRilla takes the sickly little boy back to Ingleside in a soup tureen, naming him "James Kitchener Anderson" after his father and Herbert Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War.\nRilla\'s father Gilbert challenges her to raise the war orphan, and although she doesn\'t like babies at all, she rises to the occasion, eventually coming to love "Jims" as her own.\nShe also assists in the elopement of a soldier whose beloved is the daughter of the town\'s only vocal pacifist; the pacifist\'s attempts to oppose fund-raising for the war effort or to criticize the war while leading prayers are a recurring minor storyline.\nRilla and her family pay anxious attention to all the war news as the conflict spreads and thousands die.\nRilla grows much closer to Walter, who some townsfolk and fellow students have branded a slacker, an insult he feels deeply.\nRilla feels that Walter finally regards her as a chum, not just as his little sister.\nWalter eventually does enlist, as does Rilla\'s newfound love interest, Kenneth Ford (the son of Owen and Leslie Ford, who met in Anne\'s House of Dreams), who kisses her before leaving and asks her to promise she will not kiss anyone else until he returns.\nShe keeps this a secret for much of the book, unsure what it means about his feelings for her.\nHer mother later tells her that "if Leslie Ford\'s son asked you to keep your lips for him, I think you may consider yourself engaged to him".\nAs the war continues, one night Dog Monday begins to howl inconsolably, leading the family to fear something terrible has happened to Jem.\nInstead, they receive news that Walter was killed in action at Courcelette.\n(In Anne of Ingleside, published in 1939 but set many years before Rilla of Ingleside, Montgomery foreshadows Walter\'s death; Anne sees the shadow of a cross cast from the window over sleeping Walter\'s head) In Walter\'s last letter to Rilla, written the day before his death, he tells her that he is no longer afraid and believes it may be better for him to die than to go on living with his memories of war forever spoiling life\'s beauty.\nRilla gives the letter to Una Meredith, as she has long believed Una had been in love with Walter, though she had never spoken of it to either of them.\nAnne\'s youngest son, Shirley, comes of age and immediately joins the flying corps.\nJerry Meredith is wounded at Vimy Ridge, and in early May 1918, Jem is reported wounded and missing following a trench raid.\nThe Blythes spend nearly five months not knowing Jem\'s fate, but are encouraged by Dog Monday\'s continued presence at the train station, as Susan reasons a dog so troubled by the death of his master\'s brother surely would sense a tragedy involving his master.\nFinally the family receives a telegram: Jem had been taken prisoner in Germany, but eventually escaped to Holland and is now proceeding to England for medical treatment.\nWhen the war finally ends, the rest of the boys from Glen st Mary return home.\nMary Vance and Miller Douglas announce plans to marry, with Miller deciding to pursue a career in mr Flagg\'s store after losing a leg in the war.\nJem returns on an afternoon train and is met by a joyful Dog Monday.\nJims\' father returns with a young English bride and takes Jims to live with them nearby; Rilla is glad she can still remain part of Jims\' life.\nLife after war resumes.\nJem plans to return to college, since he and Faith cannot be married until he finishes studying medicine.\nFaith, Nan, and Diana plan to teach school, while Jerry, Carl, and Shirley will return to Redmond, along with Una, who plans to take a Household Science course.\nNoting that Kenneth Ford has survived the war but has not contacted her, Rilla concludes that his interest must have faded and she should consider joining the college-bound group.\nFinally, Kenneth returns home and proposes to Rilla with the question "Is it Rilla-my-Rilla.\n"—to which Rilla lisps, "Yeth," a rare slip into her childhood habit.
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conversations.value: Rilla of Ingleside: Set almost a decade after Rainbow Valley, Europe is on the brink of the First World War, and Anne\'s youngest daughter Rilla is an irrepressible almost-15-year-old, excited about her first adult party and blissfully unaware of the chaos that the Western world is about to enter.\nHer parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun.\n(In an aside, it is revealed that Marilla has died; her date of death is not specified but Rilla states it was before she was old enough to know her very well) Once the Continent descends into war, Jem Blythe and Jerry Meredith promptly enlist, upsetting Anne, Nan, and Faith Meredith (who Rilla suspects is engaged to Jem).\nRilla\'s brother Walter, who is of age, does not enlist, ostensibly due to a recent bout with typhoid but truly because he fears the ugliness of war and death.\nHe confides in Rilla that he feels he is a coward.\nThe enlisted boys report to Kingsport for training.\nJem\'s dog, Dog Monday, takes up a vigil at the Glen train station waiting for Jem to come back.\nRilla\'s siblings Nan, Di, and Walter return to Redmond College, and Shirley returns to Queen\'s Academy, leaving Rilla anxiously alone at home with her parents, their spinster housekeeper Susan Baker, and Gertrude Oliver, a teacher who is boarding with the Blythes while her fiance reports to the front.\nAs the war drags on, Rilla matures, organizing the Junior Red Cross in her village.\nWhile collecting donations for the war effort, she comes across a house where a young mother has just died with her husband away at war, leaving no one to care for her two-week-old son.\nRilla takes the sickly little boy back to Ingleside in a soup tureen, naming him "James Kitchener Anderson" after his father and Herbert Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War.\nRilla\'s father Gilbert challenges her to raise the war orphan, and although she doesn\'t like babies at all, she rises to the occasion, eventually coming to love "Jims" as her own.\nShe also assists in the elopement of a soldier whose beloved is the daughter of the town\'s only vocal pacifist; the pacifist\'s attempts to oppose fund-raising for the war effort or to criticize the war while leading prayers are a recurring minor storyline.\nRilla and her family pay anxious attention to all the war news as the conflict spreads and thousands die.\nRilla grows much closer to Walter, who some townsfolk and fellow students have branded a slacker, an insult he feels deeply.\nRilla feels that Walter finally regards her as a chum, not just as his little sister.\nWalter eventually does enlist, as does Rilla\'s newfound love interest, Kenneth Ford (the son of Owen and Leslie Ford, who met in Anne\'s House of Dreams), who kisses her before leaving and asks her to promise she will not kiss anyone else until he returns.\nShe keeps this a secret for much of the book, unsure what it means about his feelings for her.\nHer mother later tells her that "if Leslie Ford\'s son asked you to keep your lips for him, I think you may consider yourself engaged to him".\nAs the war continues, one night Dog Monday begins to howl inconsolably, leading the family to fear something terrible has happened to Jem.\nInstead, they receive news that Walter was killed in action at Courcelette.\n(In Anne of Ingleside, published in 1939 but set many years before Rilla of Ingleside, Montgomery foreshadows Walter\'s death; Anne sees the shadow of a cross cast from the window over sleeping Walter\'s head) In Walter\'s last letter to Rilla, written the day before his death, he tells her that he is no longer afraid and believes it may be better for him to die than to go on living with his memories of war forever spoiling life\'s beauty.\nRilla gives the letter to Una Meredith, as she has long believed Una had been in love with Walter, though she had never spoken of it to either of them.\nAnne\'s youngest son, Shirley, comes of age and immediately joins the flying corps.\nJerry Meredith is wounded at Vimy Ridge, and in early May 1918, Jem is reported wounded and missing following a trench raid.\nThe Blythes spend nearly five months not knowing Jem\'s fate, but are encouraged by Dog Monday\'s continued presence at the train station, as Susan reasons a dog so troubled by the death of his master\'s brother surely would sense a tragedy involving his master.\nFinally the family receives a telegram: Jem had been taken prisoner in Germany, but eventually escaped to Holland and is now proceeding to England for medical treatment.\nWhen the war finally ends, the rest of the boys from Glen st Mary return home.\nMary Vance and Miller Douglas announce plans to marry, with Miller deciding to pursue a career in mr Flagg\'s store after losing a leg in the war.\nJem returns on an afternoon train and is met by a joyful Dog Monday.\nJims\' father returns with a young English bride and takes Jims to live with them nearby; Rilla is glad she can still remain part of Jims\' life.\nLife after war resumes.\nJem plans to return to college, since he and Faith cannot be married until he finishes studying medicine.\nFaith, Nan, and Diana plan to teach school, while Jerry, Carl, and Shirley will return to Redmond, along with Una, who plans to take a Household Science course.\nNoting that Kenneth Ford has survived the war but has not contacted her, Rilla concludes that his interest must have faded and she should consider joining the college-bound group.\nFinally, Kenneth returns home and proposes to Rilla with the question "Is it Rilla-my-Rilla.
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  Susan, in her pursuit of Wilson and politics, presently came upon something that disturbed her and exclaimed in a tone of bitter disappointment,
  Susan stalked out to the kitchen and settled down to write to Jem; deeming him in need of some home comfort from certain passages in his letter that day.
  Mrs. Blythe whispered back and then said in reply to Susan's horrified ejaculations, "It's always like that in the trenches, Susan."
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conversations.value: five more paragraphs. Start with the sentence 'Rilla copied it in her diary at the beginning of an entry in which she poured out the story of the hard week that had just passed'.
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conversations.value: Rilla copied it in her diary at the beginning of an entry in which she poured out the story of the hard week that had just passed.
  The doctor did not answer. Sometimes his work tricked him into forgetting for a few moments the Western front, but not often. There was a good deal of grey now in his still thick curls that had not been there two years ago. Yet he smiled down into the starry eyes he loved—the eyes that had once been so full of laughter, and now seemed always full of unshed tears.
  Every village has its own little unwritten history, handed down from lip to lip through the generations, of tragic, comic, and dramatic events. They are told at weddings and festivals, and rehearsed around winter firesides. And in these oral annals of Glen St. Mary the tale of the union prayer-meeting held that night in the Methodist Church was destined to fill an imperishable place.
  The union prayer-meeting was Mr. Arnold's idea. The county battalion, which had been training all winter in Charlottetown, was to leave shortly for overseas. The Four Winds Harbour boys belonging to it from the Glen and over-harbour and Harbour Head and Upper Glen were all home on their last leave, and Mr. Arnold thought, properly enough, that it would be a fitting thing to hold a union prayer-meeting for them before they went away. Mr. Meredith having agreed, the meeting was announced to be held in the Methodist Church. Glen prayer-meetings were not apt to be too well attended, but on this particular evening the Methodist Church was crowded. Everybody who could go was there. Even Miss Cornelia came—and it was the first time in her life that Miss Cornelia had ever set foot inside a Methodist Church. It took no less than a world conflict to bring that about.
  So Miss Cornelia went. Norman Douglas and his wife went too. And Whiskers-on-the-moon strutted up the aisle to a front pew, as if he fully realized what a distinction he conferred upon the building. People were somewhat surprised that he should be there, since he usually avoided all assemblages connected in any way with the war. But Mr. Meredith had said that he hoped his session would be well represented, and Mr. Pryor had evidently taken the request to heart. He wore his best black suit and white tie, his thick, tight, iron-grey curls were neatly arranged, and his broad, red round face looked, as Susan most uncharitably thought, more "sanctimonious" than ever.
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conversations.value: The door bell rang, Rilla turned reluctantly stairwards. She must answer it—there was no one else in the house; but she hated the idea of callers just then. She went downstairs slowly, and opened the front door.
  A man in khaki was standing on the steps—a tall fellow, with dark eyes and hair, and a narrow white scar running across his brown cheek. Rilla stared at him foolishly for a moment. Who was it?
  She ought to know him—there was certainly something very familiar about him—"Rilla-my-Rilla," he said.
  Ken took the uncertain hand she held out, and looked at her. The slim Rilla of four years ago had rounded out into symmetry. He had left a school girl, and he found a woman—a woman with wonderful eyes and a dented lip, and rose-bloom cheek—a woman altogether beautiful and desirable—the woman of his dreams.
  Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy—happiness—sorrow—fear—every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice would not come. Then—"Yeth," said Rilla.