I like to be told things by people who have actually seen them.

He happened to be ten minutes early this evening and he gave me a most fascinating description of some skirmishing near La Bassee." "You must remember," Thomson told her, "that personally I do not, in an ordinary way, see a great deal of fighting until the whole show is over.

It may be a fine enough panorama when an attack is actually taking place, but there is nothing very inspiring in the modern battlefield when the living have passed away from it." Geraldine shivered for a moment.
"Really, I almost wish that you were a soldier, too," she declared.
"Your work seems to me so horribly gruesome.

Come along, you know you are going to take me to dinner.

Think of something nice to say.