"I shall carry on with business as usual, and I hope other people will carry on with theirs.

There are plenty of men who can fight, and who ought to, without disorganising everything.

Hilda would see that too--she's such a sensible girl.

Look at that Boer affair, and all that foolery about the C.I.V.Why, I met a South African at the club the other day who said we'd have done ten times as well without 'em.

You must have trained men these days, and, after all, it's the men behind the armies that win the war.