They all said that." "I couldn't help it," he answered.

"The guns were there, calling, and one forgot.

I've been back to England three times since then, and each time one thought was foremost in my mind--'shall I meet Sister Josephine ?'" "But you never even made enquiries," she reminded him.

"At my hospital I made it a strict rule that our names in civil life were never mentioned or divulged, but afterwards you could have found out." He touched her left hand very lightly, lingered for a moment on her fourth finger.
"It was the ring," he said.

"I knew that you were married, and somehow, knowing that, I desired to know no more.