“It means foolishness and rum!”
“Dormer, I fear you are no born leader!”
“No, of course I wasn’t.”
“But you’ve got to lead men now, and lead ’em to victory.”
“I don’t mind much so long as I lead ’em to Peace!”
“Yes, but don’t you see, mere Peace will mean Revolution!”
“I don’t believe it. I saw that affair at Étaples. I saw the trouble among the French troops in May. Those chaps prefer to take orders from you and me rather than from their own sort.”
“How do you account for Russia, then?”
“I can’t. But it’s an object lesson rather than an example, I should say.”
“You used not to talk like that. You used to say that the men wouldn’t stand it.”