Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.