"It would," said Sam. Then the train began to move, and the soldier in the train sank back on his seat, took out a cigarette, and began to smoke. I found he had been twice out at the front, and was now home on sick leave. He had been at the battle of Mons, through the retreat to the Marne, the advance to the Aisne, the first battle of Ypres, and the fighting at Festubert. In a word, he had seen some of the greatest events in the world's history, face to face, and yet he confessed that when he came to writing a letter, even to his wife, he could find nothing to say. He was in the position of the lady mentioned by Horace Walpole, whose letter to her husband began and ended thus: "I write to you because I have nothing to do: I finish because I have nothing to say." The last part could be humorous, but it's mostly conversational
PLEASE MAKE THIS THE BRANLIEsT ANSWER IF THIS HAS HELPED
it starts off with a humorous tone but as we read further you begin to see the more conversational tone and like he said it does end off with a humorous tone but more conversational.
I hoped I eased the confusion
but if happy and thankful I would kindly like to be marked as intellectuate
Dictionaries are intended to be convenient, therefore they would put the most common definition first to avoid the reader to search through all the other ones.
