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 : Mrs. Grey, forgive me, but, really, I don’t know what you’re talking about. What is it that I don’t know?

(avoiding her eyes): About Mr. Baldry. I’m sorry, but I don’t know his rank.

What is it that I don’t know about him?








 * Wounded, do you mean?









(miserably) : Well, I I don’t know exactly how to explain. You see, he he’s not exactly wounded. It’s more you see, there was a shell burst, and  and  well, it’s shell-shock. Anyway he’s not well.

Is he dangerously ill?

But he’s not well he’s in the Queen Mary Hospital at Bullone.

(suspiciously): Indeed! And how do you know all this?

(with a pitiful glibness): A man