But one thing at least is sure.

This is no time for people with money--no matter how little--to shut themselves up in their own little houses and let the rest starve or beg or steal.

This is the time to do our share." And she waited.

But he made no reply.
"Every nation at war is doing it, dad--become like one big family--with everyone helping, doing his share.

Must a nation be at war to do that?
Can't we be brothers without the guns?
Can't you see that we're all of us stunned, and trying to see what war will mean to all the children in the world?
And while we're groping, groping, can't we give each other a hand ?" Still he sat motionless there in the dark.