"Yes."
"Making up for lost time?"
"Exactly."
"Been at the front?"
It was the kind of a question I was afraid of. I knew that if I said, "Yes," I should have to give details, and so I said, "No."
"Look as if you had been."
"Do I?"
"Often leaves some sort of hang-over—"
"It couldn't do that in my case, because I wasn't there."
He tried another avenue of approach. "Drinkwater told me you were a Frenchman."