Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army.

“Papa," she said easily, happily, walking across the park with him to the Albert…”

“No one ever wins a war, and wars are never over.”

“... what he could or couldn’t say to them. Everything he had to say: I love you…”

“Other people", Rose thought. "Other people and their bloody love.”