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Every instinct in him revolted against the situation thus forced on
him. There was something wrong with Dunbar's reasoning. Then it
flashed on him that Dunbar probably was right, and that their points
of view were bitterly opposed. Dunbar would have no scruples,
because he was not quite a gentleman. But war was a man's game.
It was not the time for fine distinctions of ethics. And Dunbar
was certainly a man.
If only he could talk it over with Natalie! But he knew Natalie
too well to expect any rational judgment from her. She would
demand at once that the girl should go. Yet he needed a woman's
mind on it. In any question of relationship between the sexes men
were creatures of impulse, but women had plotted and planned through
the ages. They might lose their standards, but never their heads.
Not that he put such a thought into words. He merely knew that
women were better at such things than men.
That afternoon, as a result of much uncertainty, he took his problem
to Audrey.


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