"And if I saw them doing nothing, while the country was asking for MEN, but writing rotten doggerel and messing about with girls far beneath them in station, I should call them the damnedest skunks unskinned!" He had the decency to rise.

"Major Meredyth," said he, "you're under a terrible misapprehension.

You're a military man and must look at everything from a military point of view.

It would be useless to discuss the philosophy of the situation with you.

We're on different planes." Just what I said.
"You," said I, "seem to be hovering near Tophet and the Abyss." "No, no," he answered with an indulgent smile.