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For the moment haylofts and wash-houses are things of the dim past. We are living in real houses, sleeping in real beds, some with sheets. To this group enters unexpectedly Captain Wagstaffe. "Hallo, Wagger!" says Blaikie. "Back already?" "Your surmise is correct," replies Wagstaffe, who has been home on leave. "I got a wire yesterday at lunch-time in the Savoy, of all places!
Patricia gazed approvingly at the dim, shadowy study of graceful figures grouped in attentive attitudes about a reader in a landscape of suggested loveliness that spoke to any observer with delicate symbolism. "It's the best ever," she declared. "I'll 'wagger, as Hannah Ann says, that you lift the medal." Elinor gave a gently contemptuous sniff as she stowed it away in its corner.
Patricia's gayety was surging back in a happy flood, and she straightened up with a little rippling laugh, casting all her shadowy fears behind her. "Just you wait till I sing my first concert, Mr. Bruce Hayden," she challenged, "and then tell me I'm a conceited goose, if you dare. I wagger as Hannah Ann says, I'll be the same stupid, silly thing I am now."
"Go and have a look at 'em, like a good chap, Wagger," says the Major. "I want to finish this letter." Wagstaffe and Bobby Little make their way along the trench until they come to a low opening marked MAXIM VILLA. They crawl inside, and find themselves in a semicircular recess, chiefly occupied by an earthen platform, upon which a machine-gun is mounted.
"Sense of proportion wasn't invented when women were made," commented Kemp. "But we are wandering from the subject, which is: what advantages are we, personally, deriving from the war? Wagger, what are you getting out of it?" "Half-a-crown a day extra pay as Assistant Adjutant," replied Wagstaffe laconically.
"What bird? The grouse?" "Oh, dry up, Wagger!" interposed Blaikie. "He means, Petitpois, that the Government, knowing that the electorate would begin to grow impatient if the War did not immediately take a favourable turn " Achille smiled. "I see now," he said. "Proceed, Ouagstaffe, my old!"
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