human
Well, I don't know how I'm going to hold out much longer, complained Jack.
gpt
I can't keep still five minutes, but have to jump up and walk it off. Let's see--two o'clock you said, didn't you? That'll be nearly three long hours more. It's simply terrible, Tom! Sixty minutes in each hour!
human
But then we'll have to eat our regular midday meal, remember, Tom tried to cheer his companion up by saying.
gpt
If you prefer it, we might walk over to the field-hospital, which, by the way, I hear is to be moved ahead to-night, to keep in closer touch with the wounded straggling back from the front. The Y hut's close by, too, and we'd enjoy an hour or so with the girls. Nellie told me she expected her brother, Harry, to be back on our sector any day now, and if he should come before we clear out we'd be mighty glad to see him.
human
Gee! you do tempt a fellow, Tom, he finally remarked, as though coming to a conclusion.
gpt
Nothing I'd like better than to chat with Bessie and have a few of those Salvation Army girls' doughnuts to munch. But I guess it would be foolish in our laying off just now.
human
You mean the notifications might arrive while we were gone?
gpt
Yes. We might lose a whole hour, perhaps two, by being away, explained Jack.
human
That would be too bad; it might even turn out a catastrophe, if in the end that hour would save us from being beaten in the race against time.
gpt
All right, then, we'll hang around and watch for something to come from Headquarters. The general promised me he'd have the notifications sent over without any delay just as soon as they came.
human
Let's go over to the flying field and watch some of the boys come in,