He was thinking of what he had said about Harry Moore.
"I think," he said to Maud that evening, "I'll just ask Moore why he was afraid of the wet fields.

Perhaps he's delicate, or perhaps he'd promised not to go." "Grandfather's hero wouldn't have called him a milksop," said Maud thoughtfully.
"No," answered Bob, "and I wish I hadn't; but then, you know, I hadn't heard about Grandfather's hero.".