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Besides, it's by way of being a secret. That's the real reason I haven't been out the last few days. I didn't feel I could leave home for even five minutes. I've been on tenterhooks--in fact it will take me two or three days to get fit again. You see, I couldn't say anything to anybody! And one heard such absurd rumours--rumours that the Government didn't mean to send any troops to the Continent--that they had been caught napping--that the transport arrangements had broken down, and so on. However, it's all right now! I report myself to-night; rejoin my old regiment to-morrow; and--well, in three or four days, please God, I shall be in France, and in a week at latest in Belgium.