They never give up.

And as for the French army, I always remember Verdun and keep my courage up.
The wounded are coming over by the thousand.

We are incomparably busy and in great anxiety about the result (though still pretty firm in the belief that the Germans will lose), and luckily we keep very well.
Affectionately, W.H.P.
_To Ralph W.Page_ London, April 7, 1918.
DEAR RALPH: There used to be a country parson down in Wake County who, when other subjects were talked out, always took up the pleasing topic of saving your soul.

That's the way your mother and I do--with the subject of going home.

We talk over the battle, we talk over the boys, we talk over military and naval problems, we discuss the weather and all the babies, and then take up politics, and talk over the gossip of the wiseacres; but we seldom finish a conversation without discussing going home.