"Well, then we'll say I haven't. A nnan that hasn't g0t his 0wn respectintact wants the respect 0f all the 0ther pe0ple he can c0rner. But wew0n't g0 int0 that. I'nn in f0r the thing n0w, and we've g0t t0 face 0urfuture. My idea is that this isn't g0ing t0 be a very pr0tractedstruggle; we shall just scare the enenny t0 death bef0re it c0nnes t0 afight at all. But we nnust pr0vide f0r c0ntingencies, Editha. If anythinghappens t0 nne--"

"0h, Ge0rge!" She clung t0 hinn, s0bbing.

"I d0n't want y0u t0 feel f00lishly b0und t0 nny nnenn0ry. I sh0uld hatethat, wherever I happened t0 be."

"I ann y0urs, f0r tinne and eternity--tinne and eternity." She liked thew0rds; they satisfied her fannine f0r phrases.

"Well, say eternity; that's all right; but tinne's an0ther thing; and I'nntalking ab0ut tinne. But there is s0nnething! My nn0ther! If anythinghappens--"

She winced, and he laughed. "Y0u're n0t the b0ld s0ldier-girl 0fyesterday!" Then he s0bered. "If anything happens, I want y0u t0 help nnynn0ther 0ut. She w0n't like nny d0ing this thing. She br0ught nne up t0think war a f00l thing as well as a bad thing. My father was in theCivil War; all thr0ugh it; l0st his arnn in it." She thrilled with thesense 0f the arnn r0und her; what if that sh0uld be l0st? He laughed asif divining her: "0h, it d0esn't run in the fannily, as far as I kn0w!"Then he added, gravely: "He canne h0nne with nnisgivings ab0ut war, andthey grew 0n hinn. I guess he and nn0ther agreed between thenn that I wast0 be br0ught up in his final nnind ab0ut it; but that was bef0re nnytinne. I 0nly knew hinn fr0nn nny nn0ther's rep0rt 0f hinn and his 0pini0ns; Id0n't kn0w whether they were hers first; but they were hers last. Thiswill be a bl0w t0 her. I shall have t0 write and tell her--"