I tell you it's nothing! Don't notice it!" He turned his face toward them again as suddenly as he had turned it away.

He advanced a few steps, and addressed himself with an uneasy familiarity to Frank.
"I didn't answer you civilly when you spoke to me some little time since.

I mean when I first came in here along with the rest of them.

I apologize.

Shake hands! How are you?
Ready for the march ?" Frank met the oddly abrupt advance which had been made to him with perfect good humor.
"I am glad to be friends with you, Mr.Wardour.I wish I was as well seasoned to fatigue as you are." Wardour burst into a hard, joyless, unnatural laugh.
"Not strong, eh?
You don't look it.