"Never mind my adventure. What does it matter?"
"It matters awfully. Because I could see that it meant something big and important that I couldn't get the hang of. It used to bother me. I kept on trying to get it, and not getting it."
"You poor dear! And I've forgotten it. It did feel frightfully big and important and real at the time. And now it's as if it had happened to somebody else--to Veronica or somebody--not me."
"It was much more like Veronica. I do understand the rest of that business. Now, I mean. I own I didn't at the time."
"It's all over, Frank, and forgotten. Swallowed up in the War."
"You're not swallowed up."
"Perhaps I shall be."
"Well, if you are--if I am--all the more reason why I want you to know that I understand what you were driving at. It was this way, wasn't it? You'd got to fight, just as I've got to fight. You couldn't keep out of it any more than I can keep out of this War."
"You couldn't stay out just for me any more than I can stay out for just you."
"And in a sort of way I'm in it for you. And in a sort of way you were in it--in that damnable suffrage business--for me."