“Oh, well, if it amuses the women, what's the difference?”
“That's not the way to look at it. They ought to be doing something useful.”
“Plenty of them are; don't forget that, old son.”
“Anybody got anything to read?”
“Now, if they would send us more books—”
“And magazines—”
“Two weeks ago, Blake, you were wishing they wouldn't send so many.”
“What of it? We were having fine weather then.”
“There ought to be some system about sending parcels to the front.”
“The Germans have it, they say. Soldier wants a book, on engineering, for example, or a history, or an anthology of recent poetry. Gets it at once through Government channels.”