15/35 It's entirely over and done with. An era of peace is beginning to dawn. After listening to my sermon this morning--it's a great pity for your own sake that you weren't in church, Simpkins--the Major finds himself in a position to forget the past and to start fresh. His attitude now--very largely owing to my sermon--is that of the dove which came to the ark with an olive leaf plucked off in its mouth." Simpkins was not apparently prepared to accept the olive leaf. He asked Meldon whether that dove was the text of his sermon. |