Yet I am going to speak to you of the secret places of my life." I laid down the pen which I had been holding between my fingers, and turned my chair.

I judged that it was not necessary for me to speak, nor apparently did he think so.
"I have been soldiering all my days," he said, "since I was a child almost.

It is a glorious life.

God knows I have never grudged a single month of it.

But when one comes back once more to dwell amongst civilians one realizes that there is another side to life.