"What does that matter? If he could send that telegram, he is no longer ours."
When Mrs. Grey came to inform Kitty and Jenny that Chris had been really ill they did not believe her at first. Then Margaret gave them the telegram in which he treated Margaret like a person he knew very well and cared about. For Kitty it was a hard blow, as it was the proof that he had lost his memory. She did not care much that he was ill, she was more upset that he did not remember her. The loss of memory is a serious mental disease, but for Kitty it did not matter.
“I cried out, because I had seen that his hair was of three colors now, brown and gold and silver.”
The day when Chris left for the front Jenny noticed that his hair was of two colors – brown and gold, but on the day when he returned she saw one more color – silver. His experience in the war added this color to his hair. Jenny understood it, she understood what terrifying things he must have seen and she sympathized with him.
"I thought perhaps my baby had left me because I had so little to give him. But if a baby could leave all this!"
It turned out that both Margaret’s and Chris’s children – boys – have died at the same time, in the same age. Margaret was really unhappy because of the loss of her child, and when she entered the Chris’s son’s room she was impressed by the things that were there. She often reproached herself that she was a bad mother because could not give her son everything in the world, he was deprived of many things because of their poverty, but when she saw all the luxury of this room she understood she was wrong. Money does not mean so much, but love really does.
“Chris had been entirely right in his assertion that to lovers innumerable things do not matter.”
Jenny was sure that when Chris would see Margaret old and not so pretty as she was twenty years ago, he would get out of his head this love and would come back to his senses. But when Jenny saw them met she understood that Chris was really in love, and Margaret’s outlook did not matter.
