"There are things that cannot be explained, doctor. For instance, I hit you in the face: you shut your eye—why?"
There was an astounded silence.
"Another instance," remarked the padre at last. "Why is it that if there is a pause in the conversation, it is always twenty minutes to, or twenty minutes past, the hour?"
"But that's not true," said the doctor.
"It was true this time, anyhow," said Aurelle, looking at his watch.
"It may be once or twice," said the doctor irritably, "but it cannot always happen."
"All right, doctor, all right," said the padre. "You notice it for several days and I think you will change your mind."
The colonel said:
"My men tell me that if a shell falls on a dug-out where there are gunners and infantry, the latter are killed and the gunners are spared. Why?"
"But it is not true, sir."