Here is a passage from Journal IV, and one can learn here much about Maud and her place and her feelings of powerlessness . Poor Maud, it seems that no one in her life would have listened to her concerns about her beloved cat back home in Cavendish. She does not hold the power of "objection" nor, ultimately, of negotiation. So Maud decides, what most of us would naturally do under the same circumstance - she prays!
The Selected Journals of LM Montgomery, Journal IV, p 234, Rubio & Waterston
"Today in one of Ewan's books I happened to pick up there was a chapter on "answers to prayer." Some of them were a bit ludicrous it must be confessed.
I have prayed many prayers in my life. Few of them were answered. I have lived to be thankful some were not. Some were answered after a fashion. I prayed only one prayer in my life that was answered absolutely by the book.
One day during the winter I spent with Aunt Emily in Malpeque Uncle John brought home a stray dog he had found and tied it up in the barn, saying that, if no owner turned up, he was going to take it down to Grandpa (our old "Gyp" was dead.) This worried me terribly. I had never been able to keep a cat as long as Gyp lived and this dog was a big black sleek-looking fellow who was evidently no friend of cats either. I had left a beloved kitten at home and the thought of this dog after it filled me with anguish. For several days I was a haunted creature. Then a day came when Uncle John took me and Aunt Emily up to an examination in the school (Fanning School?) and left us there while he went on an errand. I knew he meant to go to Cavendish next day and take the dog. Desperately I prayed "Dear God, please let Uncle John tell me on the way home that a man has come for the dog!"
Uncle John returned. Aunt Emily and I climbed into the pung and started home on the Malpeque winter road that ran through every man's field and back yard. As we skimmed across a field below the school Uncle John turned to me and said, "A man came for the dog today"!!!
