It's no joke getting back into the harness." "Perhaps you are right, Colonel, but at least I shall have something to look back upon--even if the worst comes." And Monty instinctively straightened his shoulders.
They turned to leave the building, and the Colonel had a moment of weakness.
"Do you know, Monty," he said, "my daughter is awfully cut up about this business.

She is plucky and tries not to show it, but after all a girl doesn't get over that sort of thing all in a moment.

I am not saying"-- it seemed necessary to recede a step "that it would be an easy matter to patch up.

But I like you, Monty, and if any man could do it, you can." "Colonel, I wish I might," and Brewster found that he did not hesitate.
"For your sake I very much wish the situation were as simple as it seems.

But there are some things a man can't forget, and--well--Barbara has shown in a dozen ways that she has no faith in me." "Well, I've got faith in you, and a lot of it.