"I can't believe it is either right or necessary ever to kill men; and as for the Boer War, don't you think everybody agrees now that it was unnecessary ?" Mr.Romayne was always prepared to defend with the ardour of a British soldier the righteousness of every war in which the British Army has ever been engaged.

But somehow he found it difficult to conduct an argument in favour of war against this girl who stood fronting him with a look of horror in her face.
"Well," said Mr.Romayne, "I believe there is something to be said on both sides.

No doubt there were blunders in the early part of the trouble, but eventually war had to come." "But that's just it," cried the girl.

"Isn't that the way it is always?
In the early stages of a quarrel it is so easy to come to an understanding and to make peace; but after the quarrel has gone on, then war becomes inevitable.

If only every dispute could be submitted to the judgment of some independent tribunal.