Richard is a Brigadier." "And you ?" "I am a barrister by profession, but I went out with the first Inns of Court lot for a little amateur soldiering and lost part of my foot at Mons.

Since then I have been indulging in the unremunerative and highly monotonous occupation of censoring." "Monotonous indeed, I should imagine," she agreed.

"You spend your time reading other people's letters, do you not, just to be sure that there are no communications from the enemy ?" "Precisely," he assented.

"We discover ciphers and all sorts of things." "What brainy people you must be!" "We are, most of us." "Do you do anything else ?" "Well, I've given up censoring for the present," he confided.

"I am going back to my profession." "As a barrister ?" "Just so.