Susan , if I had n't gone that night , twenty-one years ago , and taken my baby up when he cried for me I could n't face tomorrow morning . '' `` I do not know how we are going to face it anyhow , Mrs. Dr. dear . But do not tell me that it will be the final farewell . He will be back on leave before he goes overseas , will he not ? '' `` We hope so but we are not very sure . I am making up my mind that he will not , so that there will be no disappointment to bear . Susan , I am determined that I will send my boy off tomorrow with a smile . He shall not carry away with him the remembrance of a weak mother who had not the courage to send when he had the courage to go . I hope none of us will cry . '' `` I am not going to cry , Mrs. Dr. dear , and that you may tie to , but whether I shall manage to smile or not will be as Providence ordains and as the pit of my stomach feels . Have you room there for this fruit-cake ? And the shortbread ? And the mince-pie ? That blessed boy shall not starve , whether they have anything to eat in that Quebec place or not . Everything seems to be changing all at once , does it not ? Even the old cat at the manse has passed away . He breathed his last at a quarter to ten last night and Bruce is quite heart-broken , they tell me . '' `` It 's time that pussy went where good cats go . He must be at least fifteen years old . He has seemed so lonely since Aunt Martha died . ''
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