It isn't as though I wasn't in the Service.

The Army and the Navy are the same thing, any way, and we are always glad to give a Navy man a hint as to how we are getting on." "I really couldn't quite understand Major Thomson myself," she agreed.
"May I ask--do you mind ?" he began,--"have you been engaged to him long ?" She looked away for a moment.

Her tone, when she replied, was meant to convey some slight annoyance at the question.
"About three months." Captain Granet kicked a pebble away from the path in front of him with his sound foot.
"I should think he must be a very good surgeon," he remarked in a measured tone.

"Looks as though he had lots of nerve, and that sort of thing.

To tell you the truth, though, he rather frightens me.