A morsel of truth dropped from the mouth of a babe a minute ago.

You may have observed, Katie, that his inquiry was more direct and reasonable than your reply.

An improvement on a rifle.

Not such a satisfying thing to leave to a rifle eliminating future." "But I didn't know the army admitted it was to be a rifle eliminating future." "I'm not saying that the army does," he laughed.
He passed again to that look of almost passionate concentration which Katie had always supposed meant metallic fouling or some--to her--equally incomprehensible thing.

He emerged from it to exclaim tensely: "Oh I get so sick of the spirit of the army!" Instinctively Katie looked around.