It's jolly fun when you adopt our sins; Pray never fear of being thought a "poke.

" Kate smiled at the astute mingling of sly fun and questioning implied in the gently rising inflection in this query.

"Definitely fun," he said in the direction of Maine and his father whom he thought of as still being somewhere near the barn.

It was assumed that, because the British soldier sang "Tipperary," moved in an atmosphere of homely fun, indulged in no heroics, never talked of "glory," rarely of patriotism or the Fatherland, and only joked about "the flag," there was no great passion in him.

"That was merely fun.