I had not long to wait.
"I shall positively never call you anything else but Miss Caroline while you permit me to address you at all--understand it--I've associated with your boy too long.

Well, I did do four years of fighting, and I was mustered out with the rank of Major.

You might as well know it now as later.

You'll have longer to forget it.

I wish I could forget it myself.
Not the fact, for I should fight again as long and try to fight harder in the same cause, but the hellishness of it--the damnable, inhuman obscenity of it--I should like to forget.