In her exasperation she abused everything and everybody except Kitchener, and she fell upon poor President Wilson tooth and claw.
"If he had done his duty and gone into the war long ago we should not have seen this mess in Serbia," she avowed.
"It would be a serious thing to plunge a great country like the United States, with its mixed population, into the war, Susan," said the doctor, who sometimes came to the defence of the President, not because he thought Wilson needed it especially, but from an unholy love of baiting Susan.
"Maybe, doctor dear--maybe! But that makes me think of the old story of the girl who told her grandmother she was going to be married.

'It is a solemn thing to be married,' said the old lady.

'Yes, but it is a solemner thing not to be,' said the girl.

And I can testify to that out of my own experience, doctor dear.

And I think it is a solemner thing for the Yankees that they have kept out of the war than it would have been if they had gone into it.