"People who do not know me will say: "'There goes a young student, who has got his face slashed at the university.'" "They could not say that," she said indignantly.

"Even if you were not in uniform, anyone can see that you are a soldier." "Whether or not, Countess Thirza, it is a matter that will certainly trouble me very little.

However, I begin to think that I shall not always be a soldier.

Certainly, I should not leave the army as long as this war goes on; but I have seen such terrible fighting, such tremendous carnage, that I think that at the end of it, if I come out at the end, I shall be glad to take to a peaceful life.

My cousin, Marshal Keith, has been fighting all his life.