I really felt sorry for Miranda who is as much in love with Joe as a china-blue girl can be with anyone and who is dreadfully ashamed of her father's pro-German sentiments.

I think she understood that I did, for she said she had wanted to tell me all about her worries because I had grown so sympathetic this past year.

I wonder if I have.
I know I used to be a selfish, thoughtless creature--how selfish and thoughtless I am ashamed to remember now, so I can't be quite so bad as I was.
"I wish I could help Miranda.

It would be very romantic to contrive a war-wedding and I should dearly love to get the better of Whiskers-on-the-moon.

But at present the oracle has not spoken.".