She recalled her father saying, ‘Men who watch, and say but little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.‘

‘Hope,‘ he told her, ‘rarely enters into it. ‘Tis action moves the world. If ye mind nothing else I‘ve taught ye of the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if he does mean to cross it.‘ Colonel Graeme speaking to Sophia