in memoriam alice winnIt was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him. In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle an all consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always has been. When Gaunt's mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family