"I am told," said Susan, "that old Mr. Pryor does not believe in this war. I am told that he says England went into it just because she was jealous of Germany and that she did not really care in the least what happened to Belgium."
"I believe he's been talking some such rot, said Norman. I haven't heard him. When I do, Whiskers-on-the-Moon won't know what happened to him."
— L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside. NY: Stokes, p. 68.