'I should be nursing in France--' 'If it weren't for your mother and your sister ?' She nodded.

There was a pause.

Then the Squire said, in a different tone, 'But you have not answered my question.

I should be obliged if you would answer it.

How am I, being I--how is a man of my kind to fill his time--and live his life?
If the country is in deadly peril--if the ground is shaking beneath our feet--if we are to go on fighting for years, with "our backs to the wall," even I can't go on cataloguing Greek vases.