4/21 "Who cares for tactics ?" "But surely a British general--" they would persist. "Who's a British general ?" I would retort, "I am talking to you merely as a plain commonsense man, with a head on my shoulders." They would apologize for their mistake. But this is leading me away from that German _Kurhaus_. The generals and the spinsters left to themselves might have played cards, but they thought of the poor bishops who would have had to look on envious. The bishops and the spinsters might have sung ballads, but the British general after dinner does not care for ballads, and had mentioned it. |