Hilda

(Looking up at him tenderly)

Oh, Will, do you remember when he was born? (He soothes her.) And all we nursed him through afterwards; and all we taught him; all we tried to show him about war. (With a shrug of her shoulders.) None of it has mattered.

White

War is stronger than all that.

Hilda

So we mustn’t blame him. You won’t blame him?

White

He fears I will?