"Between whom ?" "Every one, pretty much," said Knight.

"Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Servia, Belgium, and Britain." "Britain!" said Barry and Duff at the same moment.
"Britain," answered Knight solemnly.
The men stood stock still, looking at each other with awed faces.
"War!" again said Barry.

"With Germany!" He turned abruptly away from the group and said, "I am going." "Going! Going where ?" said Mr.Howland.
"To the war," said Barry quietly.
"To the war! You?
A clergyman ?" said Mr.Howland.
"You?
You going ?" cried Paula.

At the pain in her voice her father and Brand turned and looked at her.

Disturbed by what he saw, her father began an excited appeal to Barry.
"Why, my dear sir, it would surely be most unusual for a man like you to go to war," he began, and for quite ten minutes he proceeded to set forth in fluent and excited speech a number of reasons why the idea of Barry's going to war was absurd and preposterous to him.