- Ethne Eustace: Harry, Harry - have you heard? The North Surreys have been called to Egypt. Well, have you rejoined?
- Harry Feversham: Rejoined? I'm out of it forever.
- Ethne Eustace: Well, I thought, and father thought, that you'd change your mind now...
- Harry Feversham: Why? To go and fight the dervishes for the glory of the Empire? To plant a flag in the Sudan?
- Ethne Eustace: Don't make a joke of it, Harry.
- General David Feversham: I'll not praise you for behaving like a soldier. That was expected from the start.