They'd just been filling up the gaps with their bodies.

And they wouldn't go back even then.

We had to drag them away.

'They shan't pass,' 'They shan't pass!'-- that's all they kept saying." His voice had sunk to a thin whisper.
A young officer was lying in a corner behind a screen.

He leant forward and pushed it aside.
"Oh, give the devil his due, you fellows," he said.