"Brave--you conceive--in the Service--one has got to be--the trade demands it (le metier veut ca).

Is it not so ?" he appealed to me reasonably.

"Eh bien! Each of them--I say each of them, if he were an honest man--bien entendu--would confess that there is a point--there is a point--for the best of us--there is somewhere a point when you let go everything (vous lachez tout).

And you have got to live with that truth--do you see?
Given a certain combination of circumstances, fear is sure to come.

Abominable funk (un trac epouvantable).