Those people of yours have all been good men and women, haven't they ?" "Most of them," he admitted, "and I think the reason is that we've been soldiers.

The army discipline is good for a man.

It narrows a fellow, I suppose, but it keeps him straight." Then he began to laugh silently.
"What is it ?" she said, curiously.
"Oh, nothing! I was just wondering what my strait-laced ancestors would say if they could see me now." "What do you mean ?" the girl asked, in open-eyed wonderment.
"I don't care," he went on, unheeding her question.

"They did worse things in their time, from what I hear." He leaned forward to draw her to him.
"Worse things?
But we are doing nothing bad," said Necia, holding him off.

"There's no wrong in loving." "Of course not," he assured her.
"I am proud of it," she declared.