We shall give John and Sheridan a warm welcome, and we shall try to make it so very warm that it will prove too hot for them.

Now, my lads, there is no immediate duty for you, and if you can sleep, do so.

Good-night." They rose and saluted again as the two colonels went back to their own particular place.
"I hope those two will be spared," said St.Clair.

"I want them to finish their chess game, and I'd like, too, to see their meeting after the war with their old friend, John Carrington." "It will all come to pass," said Harry.

"If Arthur is a poet as he seems to be, then I'm a prophet, as I know I am." "At least you're an optimist," said Dalton.
"Go to sleep, all of you, as the colonel told you to do," said Harry.
"If you don't stop talking you'll keep the enemy awake all night." But Harry himself was the last of them to sleep.