"I'll give anything up. But what?"
"That ambulance of yours that's going to get into the firing line."
"Oh--"
"I know why you want to get there. You want to tackle the hardest and most dangerous job. Naturally. But it won't make it easier for us to win the War. You can't expect us to fight so comfy, and to be killed so comfy, if we know our womenkind are being pounded to bits in the ground we've just cleared. If I thought you were knocking about anywhere there--"
"It would make it too hard?"
"It would make me jumpy. The chances are I shouldn't have much time to think about it, but when I did--"
"You'd think 'She might have spared me that.'"
"Yes. And you might think of your people. It's bad enough for them, Nicky going."
"It isn't only that I'd have liked to be where you'll be, and where he'll be. That was natural."
"It's also natural that we should like to find you here when we come back."