Una Meredith and Rilla and Susan washed the dishes, tidied up, left a cold supper and Miranda's pitiful little note on the table for Mr.Pryor, and walked home, while the mystic veil of dreamy, haunted winter twilight wrapped itself over the Glen.
"I would really not have minded being a war-bride myself," remarked Susan sentimentally.
But Rilla felt rather flat--perhaps as a reaction to all the excitement and rush of the past thirty-six hours.

She was disappointed somehow--the whole affair had been so ludicrous, and Miranda and Joe so lachrymose and commonplace.
"If Miranda hadn't given that wretched dog such an enormous dinner he wouldn't have had that fit," she said crossly.

"I warned her--but she said she couldn't starve the poor dog--he would soon be all she had left, etc.

I could have shaken her." "The best man was more excited than Joe was," said Susan.

"He wished Miranda many happy returns of the day.