And again he smiled. “I’ll be dead long before they reach me, I know that.”
“The winter’s only half over. What are you going to do?”
“Well, sir, I don’t know what we’re goin’ to do.”
“Don’t you think that, all things considered, you’d be better off in the—in the Infirmary?”
Silence.
“You know they—they’re quite comfortable, and——”
Silence.
“It’s not as if there were any—any disgrace, or——”
Silence.
“Well?”