"Remember that although we are a little older friends than many people know of, we still have some distance to go in understanding." "I want to be your friend, and I want to be your friend quickly," he said doggedly.
"No one in the world needs friends as I do," Josephine answered, "because I do not think that any one is more lonely." "You have changed," he told her, his eyes full of sympathy.
"Since Etaples?
Yes! Somehow or other, I was always able to keep cheerful there because there was always so much real misery around, and one felt that one was doing good in the world.

Here I seem to be such a useless person, no good to anybody." "If you say things like that, I shall forget how far we have to travel," he declared.

"I need your friendship.

I have come over here with rather a desperate purpose.

I think I can say that I have never known fear, and yet sometimes I flinch when I think of the next few months.