His eyes blazed upon the adjutant.
"O'Moy," he said, and the concentrated anger of his voice was terrifying, "if you suggest that any considerations but those of this campaign have the least weight with me in what I now do, you insult me.

I yield to no man in my sense of duty, and I allow no private considerations to override it.

You are saved from going home in disgrace by the urgency of the circumstances, as I have told you.

By that and by nothing else.

Be thankful, then; and in loyally remaining at your post efface what is past.