Perhaps there were yet some lingering effects from the concussion.
"Here is the surgeon now," said Mademoiselle Julie.

"He will take a look at you and he will be glad to find that what he has predicted has come true." It was the man in the white jacket, and with that wonderful tangle of black whiskers, like a patch cut out of a scrub forest.
"Well, my young Yankee," he said, "I see that you've come around.

You've raised an interesting question in my mind.

Since a cavalry horse wasn't able to break it, is the American skull thicker than the skulls of other people ?" "A lot of you Europeans don't seem to think we're civilized." "But when you fight for us we do.

Isn't that so, Mademoiselle Lannes ?" "I think it is." "War is a curious thing.