"You're wonderful." He wheeled painfully toward her presently, "Listen.

We two are alone here, in spite of ourselves.

Face to face again, in spite of all, and well enough, now, both of us, to go back to our firing lines before long.

We have come closer together than many men and women get to be in a good many years; but we're enemies, and apart, now.

At least you have seen me pretty much as I am--a savage--not much more.