He went on again. "If I believed--if I felt as you do about thiswar--Do you wish me to feel as you do?"

Now she was really not sure; so she exclaimed: "George, I don't know what youmean."

He seemed to muse away from her as before.

"There is a sort of fascination in it. I suppose that at the bottom ofhis heart every man would like at times to have his courage tested, tosee how he would act."

"How can you talk in that ghastly way?"