39/45 I'm only a man.' 'You've tried to be an angel very successfully.' 'Oh ye--es!... Well, do you attend the function to-night? All the men believe the war's a certainty.' 'I don't think I will, old man, if it's all the same to you. I'll stay quiet here.' 'And meditate? You observe a good time if ever a man did.' That night there was a tumult on the stairs. |