The next day we returned to London.
CHAPTER XXV
'WHY IS VICTORY DELAYED?
'The war still drags on, Luscombe.'
'Yes, it still drags on,' and I looked up from the copy of The Times which I had been reading. 'They seem to have had bad weather at the front. From what I can judge, the Somme push is practically at an end for this winter, unless better weather sets in.'
The train by which we travelled had just left Bristol, and would not stop until we arrived in London.
'Of course,' I went on, 'it will be Haig's policy to keep the Germans busy all the winter, but I don't imagine that much more advance will be made before spring comes.'
'That will mean another winter in the trenches, with its ghastly toll of suffering and sacrifice of human life.'
'I am afraid so,' I said, 'but then we are at war.'
'How long is this going to last?' and there was a note of impatience in his voice.