Is he all right ?' Hester repeated the telegram, and added the information that seeing him coming, Mrs.Sarratt had gone in search of her sketching things.
'Ah!--I thought if she'd got good news she might like to begin,' said Farrell.

'Poor thing--she's lucky! Our casualties these last few days have been awful, and the gain very small.

Men or guns--that's our choice just now.

And it will be months before we get the guns.

So practically, there's no choice.