“Yes, I know.”
“They say that he went on encouraging his men and calling out to them long after he was hit.”
“Did he?”
“Yes. We never could quite understand why he didn’t get recommended for promotion, or something like that.”
Another silence.
“Of course, very likely his Colonel did recommend him for decoration, and nothing came of it. I’m afraid there’s a certain amount of wire-pulling that one doesn’t know about,” said Diana solemnly.
Once more Rose made no answer, and once more Diana persevered.
“This world is such a queer place, isn’t it? I mean, there’s so much jealousy and pettiness to be found.”
“I suppose so.”
“Perhaps,” Diana laboriously amended, “I ought to say it’s not so much the world that’s queer, as the people in it.”