Perhaps she did not feel like smiling or perhaps she detected a real grain of serious purpose behind Rilla's romantic pose.

So here was Rilla hemming sheets and organizing a Junior Red Cross in her thoughts as she hemmed; moreover, she was enjoying it--the organizing that is, not the hemming.

It was interesting and Rilla discovered a certain aptitude in herself for it that surprised her.

Who would be president?
Not she.

The older girls would not like that.