They are in their right to return.

But I should advise that we return." "I'm going on," I said.
I must say here that I felt no other sensation than a blind and quite obstinate selfishness.

I had no thought of Nikitin or of the sanitars.

I did not (and this I must emphasise) think, for a moment, of the wounded man.

If the situation had been that by returning I should save many lives and by advancing should save only my own I should still have advanced.