The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. - L. P. Hartley

"But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully.

I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, that I was one of them; and the conviction I had, which comes so quickly to a boy, that nothing in the world mattered except that we should win.

"I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do.