The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

“Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders -…”

“He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. …”

“It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own …”

“That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. …”