I suppose this will come in time, but I must not try to hustle them.

Already they are willing, so far as I can see, to use me to their own ends.

They accepted the signalling idea very readily, and are quite willing to drill as much as I like.

This can be (and I think is, in its way) a pleasure to them.

They are born soldiers, every man of them; and practice together is only a realization of their own wishes and a further development of their powers.