"And I'm certain he would."
"I wish to God we'd got conscription here. I'd rather the Government commandeered my body than stand this everlasting interference with my soul."
"Then," said Lawrence, "you'll not be surprised at my enlisting."
"You're not--"
"I am. I'd have been in the first week if I'd known what to do about Vera."
"But--it's--it's not sane."
"Perhaps not. But it's Irish."
"Irish? I can understand ordinary Irishmen rushing into a European row for the row's sake, just because they haven't got a civil war to mess about in. But you--of all Irishmen--why on earth should you be in it?"
"Because I want to be in it."
"I thought," said Michael, "you were to have been a thorn in England's side?"