20/48 Remember the story of Sir Walter Scott's boy with the butter? But in its bare state it's not a pretty sight for the mother." "It ought to have a name," said I."The poilu calls his bayonet Rosalie." He looked at it darkly for a moment, before refitting the wash-leather. "Good-bye." And he turned quickly and strode out of the door. Why, in spite of all my open-heartedness, did he still contrive to leave me with a sense of the enigmatic? |