9/17 Think what it is that you purpose!" "It is what every soldier has to face," Richard declared. "The war is in your brains, I think. You would carry it from the battlefields into your daily life. Because two great countries are at war, is everything to go by--chivalry ?--all the finer, sweeter feelings of life? Here in my drawing-room, I will not have this black demon of the war dragged in as an excuse for murder! Take Dick away, Helen!" she begged. |