Scott told her that people around town – and the whole country for that matter – were coming to terms with the fact that war was on the horizon and that they could be weeks, if not days, away from it. Scott hesitated a bit as if he couldn’t get the right words for what he wanted to say. Flora asked what that had to do with the two of them since he wasn’t in the army. Scott looked at her seeming determined to be precise with what he was about to say and told her that he intended to enlist himself into the army when war broke out. Flora couldn’t respond back to him straight away. She thought that he had to be joking. He had just proposed to her roughly two months ago and now he was going to enlist into the army? She tried to get an explanation as to why he himself would possibly want to get sent out when the country already had an army but all she got back as a response was that he felt that it was his duty as an able-bodied young man to fight for his country. She tried a few more times to talk him out of it but he wouldn’t move on his decision.