"Pity more of your sort don't come over.
When I was up at Loos, September last year, we didn't see a padre in three months.

Then they put on a little chap--forget his name--who used to bike over when we were in rest billets.

But he wasn't much use." "I was in hospital seven weeks and never saw one," said Jenks.
"Good heavens!" said Graham.

"But I've been trying to get out for all these years, and I was always told that every billet was taken and that there were hundreds on the waiting list.

Last December the Chaplain-General himself showed me a list of over two hundred names." "Don't know where they get to, then, do you, Bevan ?" asked Jenks.
"No," said the Major, "unless they keep 'em at the base." "Plenty down at Rouen, anyway," said Donovan.