Very interesting and charming these talks were.

I was much impressed with the miscellaneous interests and life histories of the men who had been so quickly drawn together.

All were fast being shaken down into their places, and I think the great lessons of unselfishness and the duty of pulling together were being stamped upon the lives that had hitherto been more or less at loose ends.

I used to sit in the tents talking long after lights were out, not wishing to break the discussion of some interesting life problem.

This frequently entailed upon me great difficulty in finding my way back to my tent, for the evenings were closing in rapidly and it was hard to thread one's way among the various ropes and pegs which kept the tents in position.