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Julie

By——[Tries to put it into words; fails; then breaks off suddenly.] Oh, you'll get to know when you've lived in the city long enough. You're nothing but a country girl. When you've lived in the city a year, like I have, you'll know all about it.


Marie

[Half angrily.] Well, how do you know when you see a real soldier?


Julie

By one thing.


Marie

What?


Julie

One thing——[She pauses. Marie starts to cry.] Oh, what are you crying about?


Marie

Because you're making fun of me. . . . You're a city girl, and I'm just fresh from the country . . . and how am I expected to know a soldier when I see one?. . . You, you ought to tell me, instead of making fun of me——


Julie

All right. Listen then, cry-baby. There's only one way to tell a soldier: by his salute! That's the only way.

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