But from this course her best friends dissuaded her.

The headmaster of Longworth College and Mr.Joynson, her trustee, were unanimous in counseling her to leave the boy alone, and Aunt Harriet cordially agreed with them.
"Let the lad serve his country!" she wrote to her niece.

"He is tall for his age, and if the Military Authorities have accepted him, well and good.

It seems to me the one thing in the world that is likely to steady him and give him that sense of responsibility that hitherto he has so signally lacked.

You will make the mistake of your life if you keep him back now." It seemed funny to Winona to imagine Percy, so young and boyish, actually in His Majesty's uniform.