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.

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

“More talk of love would lead to the difficulties surrounding...Oh, God, he love…”

“They did not talk about the larger present, so circumscribed, so uncontrollable…”

“He's a man, she thought, and the very word gave her s frisson, a lurch inside.”