[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——