The various details of this work fill in the day very thoroughly.

This office (of Operations) rarely closes before midnight, and the principal officers are frequently at work until the small hours of the morning.

There is, of course, an officer on duty all night.
"During the German attack in March the officer responsible here for the movement of troops by rail did not leave the office even for meals for a number of days on end." So the long ascent climbs, from the humblest platoon in the field, through company, battalion, division, corps, and Army to the General Staff, and the British Commander-in-Chief, moving and directing the whole; with beyond these, again, as the apex of the great construction, the figure of the illustrious Frenchman, who for the last six months of the war, by the common consent of the Allies, and especially by the free will of England and her soldiers, held the general scheme of battle in his hands.

In the British Army what we have been watching is an active hierarchy of duty, discipline, loyalty, intelligence--the creation of a whole people, bent on victory for a great cause.

Must it, indeed, vanish with the war, like a dream at cock-crow, or shall we yet see its marvellous training, its developments of mind and character, gradually take other shapes and enter into other combinations--for the saving and not the slaying of men?
EPILOGUE _June 1st._ I have thus brought these rapid notes--partly of things seen, partly of things read--to an end.