A good friend of mine is over there; he was buried day before yesterday.

I sat up late last night writing to his wife--or perhaps I should say his widow.

They had been married only a few weeks when the call came.

It will be very hard on her." He did not name the general who lay over yonder, nor did we ask him the name.

To ask would not have been etiquette, and for him to answer would have been worse.