After what you say, of course I cannot think of refusing it, though I would do so if I thought the payment would in the slightest way inconvenience you.

But as you say that now I am away it will make something like that sum difference in your expenses, I must of course let you do as you like, and can only thank you very heartily for it.

But I could really have got on very well without it.

I fancy that a good many men in the regiment have nothing but their pay, and as they manage very well there is no reason I could not manage too.
"Of course in war times things are not kept up so expensively as they were before, and lots of men get commissions who would not have done so when the army was only half its present size, and was considered as a gentlemanly profession instead of a real fighting machine.

However, as you say, it is a great deal more pleasant having nine shilling a day to live on instead of four and sixpence.
"I am getting on capitally here.