Nora.
(Tosses it back to him.) What are you dreaming about, Loveday?
Loveday.
Before ever I met you all—for months past—I have been thinking about Gordon’s problem. What is one who cannot fight to do for our country?
Nora.
Save, as you said yourself.
Loveday.
It isn’t only fighting and saving the nation’s needs. It needs thinking. Wouldn’t it be splendid to see a man’s strength and his brains put into thinking that might save thousands of lives in the time to come.
Varlie.
People who talk about thinking are generally fools. The wise man thinks his hardest how to conceal what he is thinking.