Why shouldn't things be the same again--when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back?
We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.
"The coming of the mail is the most exciting event of every day now.
Father just snatches the paper--I never saw father snatch before--and the rest of us crowd round and look at the headlines over his shoulder.
Susan vows she does not and will not believe a word the papers say but she always comes to the kitchen door, and listens and then goes back, shaking her head.

She is terribly indignant all the time, but she cooks up all the things Jem likes especially, and she did not make a single bit of fuss when she found Monday asleep on the spare-room bed yesterday right on top of Mrs.Rachel Lynde's apple-leaf spread.

'The Almighty only knows where your master will be having to sleep before long, you poor dumb beast,' she said as she put him quite gently out.
But she never relents towards Doc.

She says the minute he saw Jem in khaki he turned into Mr.Hyde then and there and she thinks that ought to be proof enough of what he really is.

Susan is funny, but she is an old dear.