human
You mean, she faltered,
gpt
But I thought--of course I don't know anything about it, Jervis, and I daresay you'll think me very ignorant--but from what the Dean said this morning I thought that only our fleet is to fight the Germans.
human
The Dean is an old---- and then they both laughed. Jervis Blake went on:
gpt
If we don't go to the help of the French and the Belgians, then England's disgraced. But of course we're going to fight!
human
Look here, she said earnestly.
gpt
We've always been friends, you and I, haven't we, Jervis?
human
Well, I want you to promise me something!
gpt
I can't promise you I won't enlist.
human
I don't want you to promise me that. I only want you to promise me to wait just a few days--say a week. Of course I don't know anything about how one becomes a soldier, but you'd be rather sold, wouldn't you, if you enlisted and then if your regiment took no part in the fighting--if there's really going to be fighting?