Hilda
(Smiling)
But you didn’t like it—coming from him?
White
It will be different with you and me now that America’s gone in.
Hilda
Yes. It will be harder for us here; for hate is always furthest from the trenches. But you and I are not the sort who would compromise to escape the persecution which is the resource of the non-combatant.
(The phone rings: he looks at his watch.)
White
That’s for me.