I would not give, even to you, anything that would help restore a sick soldier to his regiment or his home.

My first duty, as that of yours and all of us, is to him.

He is the man of the occasion.

All the rest of us are mere adjuncts to him.
We have no reason for being, except to increase his effectiveness." The earnestness with which he spoke, so different from his light bantering at the breakfast table, made her regard him more attentively.
"I begin to get a glimmering," she said at length, "of the inspiration in this kind of work.

Before it has all seemed unutterably repulsive to me.