Besides, he says everyone is very friendly and welcomes him--only he feels that that makes it worse.

He thinks they don't want--well, what he has to give, I suppose." "What he has to give?
But what in the world has he to give?
He has to take parade services, and visit hospitals and" (he was just going to say "bury the dead," but thought it hardly sounded pleasant), "make himself generally decent and useful, I suppose.

That's what chaplains did when I was a subaltern, and jolly decent fellows they usually were." "Well, I know.

That's what I should feel, and that's what I don't quite understand.

I suppose he feels he's responsible for making the men religious--it reads like that.