And the Administrator's neutral!--strong for law and order but taking no sides." "And you ?" "I'm one of the men who is trying to keep the peace." He invited me to stay to dinner.

The other members of the mess were trooping in, all his juniors, all obviously fond of him and boisterously irreverent of his rank.

Dinner under his chairmanship was a sort of school for repartee.

It was utterly unlike the usual British mess dinner.

If you shut your eyes for a minute you couldn't believe that any one present had ever worn a uniform.