"You bet, if I was a fellow, I'd enlist for the kind of home service I wanted—that's what Eddie and all the fellows are doing."
"So would I, Clara, if I was what you call a—free man. There's nobody given it more thought than me."
"Well, then, why don't you? Talk's cheap."
"You know why, Clara, to get back to going around in a circle again."
"But you've got to go, sooner or later. You've got a comfortable married sister and independent circumstances of your own to keep your mother; you haven't got a chance for exemption."
"I don't want exemption."
"Well, then, beat the draft to it."
"I—Most girls ain't so anxious to—to get rid of their best fellows,
Clara."
"Silly! Can't you see the point? If—if you'd enlist and go off to camp, I—I could go and live near you there like Birdie Harberger does her husband. See?"
"You mean—"