After Rinaldi goes to town and the major goes to bed, Henry and the priest go up to Henry's room to talk. Henry sees that the priest has become surer of himself in the time that he had been away. The priest predicts that the war will soon be over, and Henry asks why he feels that way. "You know how your major is? Gentle? Many people are like that now," he replies. Henry agrees that he himself feels the same way, but does not believe that both sides will simply stop fighting. The priest replies, "I suppose not. It is too much to expect. But when I see the changes in men I do not think it can go on." Henry says that as long as the Austrians feel that.....
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