[Pauses.]

I'm just whistling to keep up my courage!

[He pauses again in an agony of suffering.]

I know that he got to Atlanta——

[Pauses.]

Sherman has disappeared!

Betty

Forgive me—I forgot. You're going to win. I feel it. I know it!

Lincoln

That's the way to talk! That's the way I'm talking to myself though I'm scared within an inch of my life——