And do you know what will happen if she conquers?
Canada will be a German colony." "Well, I guess a few things will happen before that," said Harvey shrugging his shoulders.

"The British navy would have to be licked for one; and for another, Miller here, now, and I, we'd raise a dust, wouldn't we, Miller?
No Germans need apply for this old country, eh ?" Harvey ran down the steps laughing.
"I declare, I think all you boys talk the craziest stuff," said Mary Vance in disgust.

She got up and dragged Miller off to the rock-shore.
It didn't happen often that they had a chance for a talk together; Mary was determined that this one shouldn't be spoiled by Walter Blythe's silly blather about Pipers and Germans and such like absurd things.
They left Walter standing alone on the rock steps, looking out over the beauty of Four Winds with brooding eyes that saw it not.
The best of the evening was over for Rilla, too.

Ever since Jack Elliott's announcement, she had sensed that Kenneth was no longer thinking about her.

She felt suddenly lonely and unhappy.