These I handed round and lit them.
Voices from different parts would say, "May I have one, Sir ?" It was really delightful to feel that a moment's comfort could be given (p.

072) to men in their condition.

A man arrived that night with both his eyes gone, and even he asked for a cigarette.

I had to put the cigarette into his mouth and light it for him.

"It's so dark, Sir," he said, "I can't see." I was not going to tell him he would never see again, so I said, "Your head is all bandaged up.