"Where anybody is," said Cherry. "Heaven must be near when the Lord is close by, 'with you,' and 'at your right hand.'"
She was all changed this morning; so quiet, so self-possessed.
"Well, you see," Magnus went on impulsively, "one gets out of practice. I've not heard a blessing asked for two years, till I came home. Except when mother and I had our picnic."
"Not in your Mess Hall?"
"But, Magnus——"
"What?"
"You can always ask one silently for yourself."
Magnus gave a long groan.
"I believe your flag is sixty feet long," he said. "What do you suppose the other three hundred men would say to me?"