Rilla of Ingleside

CONTENTS

I GLEN "NOTES" AND OTHER MATTERS
II DEW OF MORNING
III MOONLIT MIRTH
IV THE PIPER PIPES
V "THE SOUND OF A GOING"
VI SUSAN, RILLA, AND DOG MONDAY MAKE A RESOLUTION
VII A WAR-BABY AND A SOUP TUREEN
VIII RILLA DECIDES
IX DOC HAS A MISADVENTURE
X THE TROUBLES OF RILLA
XI DARK AND BRIGHT
XII IN THE DAYS OF LANGEMARCK
XIII A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE
XIV THE VALLEY OF DECISION
XV UNTIL THE DAY BREAK
XVI REALISM AND ROMANCE
XVII THE WEEKS WEAR BY
XVIII A WAR-WEDDING
XIX "THEY SHALL NOT PASS"
XX NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING
XXI "LOVE AFFAIRS ARE HORRIBLE"
XXII LITTLE DOG MONDAY KNOWS
XXIII "AND SO, GOODNIGHT"
XXIV MARY IS JUST IN TIME
XXV SHIRLEY GOES
XXVI SUSAN HAS A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
XXVII WAITING
XXVIII BLACK SUNDAY
XXIX "WOUNDED AND MISSING"
XXX THE TURNING OF THE TIDE
XXXI MRS. MATILDA PITTMAN
XXXII WORD FROM JEM
XXXIII VICTORY!
XXXIV MR. HYDE GOES TO HIS OWN PLACE AND SUSAN TAKES A HONEYMOON
XXXV "RILLA-MY-RILLA!"



CHAPTER I

GLEN "NOTES" AND OTHER MATTERS

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room
at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction
hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had
been working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had
fairly earned an hour of repose and gossip. Susan just then was
perfectly happy; everything had gone almost uncannily well in the
kitchen that day. Dr. Jekyll had not been Mr. Hyde and so had not
grated on her nerves; from where she sat she could see the pride of her
heart--the bed of peonies of her own planting and culture, blooming as
no other peony plot in Glen St. Mary ever did or could bloom, with
peonies crimson, peonies silvery pink, peonies white as drifts of
winter snow.