The company which he would see would be sober company, in which he would be forced to keep in order.

He would have something to do in the world; and he'd do it well.

He is just cut out for a soldier, and might have made a gallant one by now, if he had had other men's chances.

He will find he does his militia work well; and it will be a new interest, and a new pride, and a new life to him.

And meanwhile, madam, what you have said to me is sacred.