If I may say so, we think you behaved extremely well." Ford could not answer.

His guilty conscience shamed him into silence.
With his siren shrieking and his horn tooting, he was forcing the car through lanes of armed men.

They packed each side of the road.

They were banked behind the hedges.

Their camp-fires blazed from every hill-top.
"Your regiment seems to have turned out to a man!" exclaimed Ford admiringly.
"MY regiment!" snorted the officer.