Its form consisted of question and answer: “What’s the matter with Lloyd-George? ’E’s orl right! And what’s the matter with Winston? ’E’s orl right. What’s the matter with Beatty?” . . .

“That fellow is surprisingly like our friend Dainton,” said my uncle.


PART TWO


CHAPTER ONE

THE NAKEDNESS OF THE LAND

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so

melancholy as a battle won.”

Duke of Wellington: Despatches.