"What makes you think that?"
"Various things."
He added:
"Our object is simply to delay them, I think. The north is where the game will be lost or won!"
He had a fit of coughing. Henriot appeared.
"Would you believe it! The general turned up, and hauled the colonel over the coals. He declares that we ought not to have left the trenches we were holding last night!"
"Oh, rot!"
"And that we've got to go back!"
"Nonsense!"
Yes. When the news got about it called forth anger, cold at first—If they didn't know what they wanted.... Then the men grew heated. A wave of rage, and indeed opposition, surged through them. We ourselves did not quite escape it.