Yes, but poor Sylvia too. It’s easy enough to do your duty when duty is dangerous and exciting, but when you can do nothing—no one knows better than I what it is to sit still and look on when others are doing the things that are worth while. This war came ten years too late for me.
Mrs. Poole.
That’s what the Vicar has been saying ever since the war began. But after all your son has taken your place, and I think you can be proud of him.
Colonel Wharton.
[With intense satisfaction.] The rascal with his Military Cross and his D.S.O.
Mrs. Poole.
I’m so glad that his first day here was a Sunday.
Mrs. Wharton.
You don’t know what I felt when we knelt down side by side in church. I was very grateful.
Mrs. Poole.