"All right," says Charlie, "so long!"
He is about to go, but I recall him.
"Can I have a minute with you, Sergeant?"
"Ten. What's the matter?"
"There is a chance of our not coming back to-night?"
"Are you funky?"
"Charlie, I haven't deserved this. You know that I won't shirk."
"Well, what is it then?"
"It is ... it is simply that for some time you are changed towards me, you've been sulky, and I should not like to go off on the long journey without having made friends with you again."