But I must say army and navy men are more interesting than most civilians.
It's the constant change in their lives, and their having to meet so many kinds of people." "In actual war, men who are not merely 'Tommies' actually take part," Coombe suggested.

"I was looking at a ball-room full of them the night after the news came from Sarajevo.

Fine, well-set-up youngsters dancing with pretty girls.

I could not help asking myself what would have happened to them before the German army crossed the Channel--if they were not able to prevent the crossing.

And what would happen to the girls after its crossing, when it poured over London and the rest of England in the unbridled rage of drunken victory." He so spoke because beneath his outward coldness he himself felt a secret rage against this lightness which, as he saw things, had its parallel in another order of trivial unawareness in more important places and larger brains.