It was to her Billy turned like a little boy.
"Please look at me, Vera, and tell me you are sorry. It was like me to do the right thing in the wrong way, wasn't it? Yet there are so many things I want to say, want to explain to people. You see it is all a question of our learning to understand each other better to end fighting and all the rest of it. You believed in me, didn't you, Vera? Yet you understand that I could not let the soldiers out here be killed when they are getting ready to give their lives for ours. What is that we read about Christ the other day, Vera?"
Vera held Billy's two hands folded closely in her own.
"Listen, dear, and remember this:
"'Christ is courage, Christ is adventure, he fights for us and with us against death.'"
CHAPTER XIX
Plans for the Future
In a large hotel sitting-room a number of girls were grouped in various attitudes, discussing a question which evidently interested them.
"Does any one know why we are not to start east tomorrow as we planned?" Marta Clark inquired, glancing up from a city map which she had been studying.