Page 30 (1/1)

Their turn brought theain under the women's eyes He took her arm and drew her aside to the rail of the boat's stern They stood there, watching the wake boiling and breaking and thinning, a white lace of froth on the glassy green Sutton passed them

"What's the ot it on hisit like that, Jeanne, as one consu about it?"

"I don't think I'--wanting frightfully--to help"

"Unless you can go into it as if it was some tremendous, happy adventure--That's the only way to take it I shouldn't be any good if I didn't feel it was thethat ever happened tomatters, that it doesn't matter if you're killed, or mutilatedOf course I want to help, but that would be nothing without the ga and held her with his shining, excited eyes

"War's thethat ever happenedFalse romance, my father calls it Jolly little romance about hi motors to the Governive us those two ambulances, and pay for us"

"Is it? Think of the kudos he gets out of it, and the advertiseraphs he'll put in the papers about hi out two Roden field ambulance cars which he will drive himself--'Mr John Roden Conway and his field ambulance car A Roden, 30 horse power' He , the old raphs in the papers

"False ro as false romance Romance is a state of mind A state of mind can't be false or true It simply exists It hasn't any relation to reality It is reality, the most real part of us When it's dead we're dead"

"Yes"

But it was funny to talk about it About roer It made her hot and shy She supposed that was because she couldn't take things in Her fatheadedness It was easy not to say things if you didn't feel them The more John felt them the more he had to say them Besides, he never said the the