But she was not. She got up very sudenly and came around
the table while William was breaking a plate in the pantrey, and
put her hand on my shoulder.
"Dear little Bab!" she said. "You are right and I am wrong,
and we will just turn in and do what we can, all of us. We will
give the party money to the Red Cross."
I was greatly agatated, but managed to ask for the ten
dollars for my share of the Tent, etcetera, although not saying
exactly what for, and father passed it over to me. War certainly
has changed my Familey, for even Leila came over a few moments
ago with a hat that she had bought and did not like.
I must now stop and learn the Star-Spangled Banner by
heart, having never known but the first verse, and that not
entirely.
LATER: How helpless I feel and how hopeless!
I was learning the second verse by singing it, when father
came over in his _robe de nuit_, although really pagamas, and
said that he enjoyed it very much, and of course I was right to
learn it as aforsaid. but that if the Familey did not sleep it
could not be very usefull to the Country the next day such as
making shells and other explosives.
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