Oh, that damned horrible war! _What_ has it not done to us ?...

Daren, you looked white and weak, but I never thought you were--going to die....
How dreadful!" Something of her girlishness returned to her in this moment of sincerity.

The past was not wholly dead.

Memories lingered.

She looked at Lane, wide-eyed, in distress, caught between strange long-forgotten emotions.
"Helen, it's not dreadful to have to die," replied Lane.