The man's patriotic conscience could be felt struggling with his dilettantism.
Sarratt suddenly liked him.
'No, indeed,' he said heartily.

'Why shouldn't you ?' 'It's when one thinks of _your_ job, one feels a brute to be doing anything one likes.' 'Well, you'd be doing the same job if you could.

That's all right!' said Sarratt smiling.
It was curious how in a few minutes the young officer had come to seem the older and more responsible of the two men.

Yet Farrell was clearly his senior by some ten or fifteen years.

Instinctively Nelly moved nearer to George.