“I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)”

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

“Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.”

“I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.”

“Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.”

“Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.”

“But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.”