The General smiled.
“That is exactly what I expect from you, More, and I too hope that I will never be disillusioned.”
Rupert talked with the other Officers in the Mess at luncheon time, but they left him even more depressed than he had been when with the General.
It seemed to him impossible that those in command and the politicians did not realise how utterly unprepared the Army was to engage in full-scale war, especially in a part of the world they were totally unfamiliar with.
However, when it was time to dress for dinner, he was not worrying about the war any more.
He was thinking of Tania again.
*
Tania meanwhile had spent an extremely unhappy and difficult day.
She had breakfast brought up to her in the nursery and the footman who carried it up had said to her,
“Mr. Dawson t
