"Please, Colonel, Can't I Join?"
The Boy Scouts of England, France and Italy have been of invaluable service during the war.
At this point, the door of the inner room opened and the master entered, in uniform. He looked quizzically at his wife.
"I was afraid," he said, "that it would not fit. It is twenty years since I wore it last. And I am not as slim, dear, as I was then."
"I altered it yesterday," she said, quietly.
"Yesterday we knew nothing!" exclaimed the master, in surprise.
"When the army was finally ordered to the front on Friday," she replied, "it was not difficult to guess that danger was very close. And, Jean, if there were danger, I would not need to be told that you would go."
The schoolmaster put his arm around his wife as he handed her to her seat at the table.
"Mark you this, Monroe," he said, "and remember it: The strength of a country is in proportion as its women are strong."