And a bayonet charge! If I could face the other things I could never face that.

It turns me sick to think of it--sicker even to think of giving it than receiving it--to think of thrusting a bayonet through another man." Walter writhed and shuddered.

"I think of these things all the time--and it doesn't seem to me that Jem and Jerry ever think of them.
They laugh and talk about 'potting Huns'! But it maddens me to see them in the khaki.

And they think I'm grumpy because I'm not fit to go." Walter laughed bitterly.

"It is not a nice thing to feel yourself a coward." But Rilla got her arms about him and cuddled her head on his shoulder.