"I looked at Ruggles. He wouldn't catch my eye, but a blush was working round towards his neck.
"'And I've changed my mind too,' said Jenks. 'D'you think I'd have taken those risks I took to-day if there was a girl at home worrying over every casualty list? A man's a fool to risk breaking a heart to try to get a medal.'
"'Ay, that's the way you look at it,' said Ruggles, as red as beetroot. 'But I bet the Sergeant's glad she's changed her mind. I never knew your equal for a clammy coward, Jim, before she chucked you up.'
"Jenks began to look black. 'There were two of us, anyway,' he said.
"'P'r'aps there were,' Ruggles agreed cheerily. 'But what's the good of making a show of your soldiering unless there's someone at home looking on and caring?'"
INTENSIVE CULTURE FOR FLAT-DWELLERS.
Sowing early mustard and cress on winter underclothing.