Besides I get out of the drilling." He laughed.

"I should hate being shouted at and ordered about by a husky old sergeant." They neither spoke again till they came to the bridge, from the other side of which the busses started.
"I may not see you again before I go," he said.

"Look after Mary.

I shall try to persuade her to go down to her aunt in Hampshire.

It's rather a bit of luck, as it turns out, the paper being finished with.