Everybody thinks I'm not strong yet--and I'm skulking behind that belief.

I--I should have been a girl," Walter concluded in a burst of passionate bitterness.
"Even if you were strong enough, you oughtn't to go," sobbed Rilla.
"What would mother do?
She's breaking her heart over Jem.

It would kill her to see you both go." "Oh, I'm not going--don't worry.

I tell you I'm afraid to go--afraid.

I don't mince the matter to myself.