They might at least have put him on the Modern side.

He'd have been better understood there." This speech Fisher minor listened to with growing perplexity.

Was D'Arcy in jest or earnest?
He seemed to be in earnest, and the serious faces of his listeners looked like it too.

Had the captain really made that remark to Denton?
Suppose there _was_ something in it! Suppose, without his knowing, he was really a little queer in his head! His people might have told him of it.

And Fisher major, his brother--even he hadn't heard of it! Oh dear! oh dear! How was he ever to recover his reputation for sanity?
Whatever induced him to sing that song?
Poor Fisher minor devoutly wished himself home again, within reach of his mother's soothing voice and his sisters' smiles.