I know that when I was busy fighting, sorely pushed as we were, I wondered when I heard you shout in English; and I had heard you call out so often, when you were playing cricket with the officers, that I recognized your voice at once.
"Then the wonder that we felt about you ceased.

It seemed for a moment impossible, for I had seen you go off with the sick convoy.
Then it seemed to me that it was just the thing that Captain Bullen's son might be expected to do.

You would naturally want to see fighting, but I did wonder how you managed to come back and get enlisted into the regiment.

I remember, now, that I wondered a little the first night you joined.

You were in uniform and, as a rule, recruits don't go into uniform for some time after they have joined.