He's working out his salvation somehow, although he may not know it." "Do you really think so ?" "I do," said I."And if he finds that the path of wisdom leads to the German trenches--will you be glad or sorry ?" She grappled with the question in silence for a moment or two.

Then she broke down and, to my dismay, began to cry.
"Do you suppose there's a woman in England that, in her heart of hearts, doesn't want her men folk to fight ?" I only allow the earlier part of this chapter to stand in order to show how a man quite well-meaning, although a trifle irascible, may be wanting in Christian charity and ordinary understanding; and of how many tangled knots of human motive, impulse, and emotion this war is a solvent.

You see, she defended her son to the last, adopting his own specious line of argument; but at the last came the breaking-point....
The rest of our interview was of no great matter.

I did my best to reassure and comfort her; and when I next saw Marigold, I said affably: "You did quite well to wake me." "I thought I was acting rightly, sir.

Mr.Randall having bolted, so to speak, it seemed only natural that Mrs.Holmes should come to see you." "You knew that Mr.Randall had bolted and you never told me ?" I glared indignantly.