I’d add that it’s often, in its own way, a variety of Stiff Upper Lip (I’m thinking of Ernest Thesiger’s description of his WWI experiences: ‘oh my dear, the dreadful noise and the dreadful people.’)
P.S. Agreed—and actually that's part of the later stages of A Scarlet Pansy, when so many of Fay's flamboyant circle go to war. "With all their frivolous attitude toward life, their moments of sacrifice and heroism." I wonder if that makes it the earliest novel I have read to acknowledge so definitely and matter-of-factly the bravery under fire of people who joke with one another, "You know well enough where you'd have been if there was any shelling on, probably sheltered into the captain's arms in a dugout." – "Yes, and you'd crawl into a hole somewhere." – "A hole, of course!"
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P.S. Agreed—and actually that's part of the later stages of A Scarlet Pansy, when so many of Fay's flamboyant circle go to war. "With all their frivolous attitude toward life, their moments of sacrifice and heroism." I wonder if that makes it the earliest novel I have read to acknowledge so definitely and matter-of-factly the bravery under fire of people who joke with one another, "You know well enough where you'd have been if there was any shelling on, probably sheltered into the captain's arms in a dugout." – "Yes, and you'd crawl into a hole somewhere." – "A hole, of course!"