midday
WHAT WILL BRITAIN DO ? IS IT WAR ? --------------------------------------- This sort of thing was alvays going on , and on holidays one disregarded it as a matter of course . Week-davs , in the slack time after the midday meal , then perhaps one might worry about the Empire and international politics ; but not on a sunny Sunday , with a pretty girl trailing behind one , and envious cyclists trying to race you . Nor did our young people attach any great importance to the flitting suggestions of military activity they glimpsed ever and again . Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns of peculiar construction halted by the roadside , with a number of businesslike engineers grouped about them watching through field-glasses some sort of entrenchment that was going on near the crest of the downs . It signified nothing to Bert .