I couldn't bear it.

There's something about you I can't understand." In her attitude, too, he found a touch of the incomprehensible.

He said, however, with a sneer: "If I were swaggering about in a cheap uniform, you'd find me simplicity itself." She caught at his opening, desperately.
"Yes.

At any rate I'd find a man.

A man who wasn't afraid to fight for his country." "Afraid!" "Yes," she cried, and her blue eyes blazed.