Analysing language

Journey´s End.

In page 65, Raleigh says "I say - it is most frightfully exciting!" which is after Raleigh getting told that he gets to participate in the raid. The quote could mean that he is so excited that he finally gets a job to do and it is a big thing, because he is new in the Company and wants to get out there and see how everything is. But at the same time we know that if Raleigh knew what might could happen to him, he wouldn't be that excited about being picked to the raid. On the other side we have Osborne, who we know, from the short little answer he gives back to Stanhope "I see." (page 60), isn't that exciting about being picked  because he knows that this could be the last time he ever returns back to the trench.
By the way we see Hibbert 'trembling' and 'crying without effort to restrain himself '(page 56-57) Sherriff shows us that war is traumatic and Hibbert definitely can't take the stains of war anymore. We also see the stress and fear there is suffered by the men during the war on Hibbert when he trys to escape before the big attack, "I tell you, i can´t - the pain's nearly sending me mad."(page 55)
The quote "It's rotten to send a fellow who's only just arrived"(page 53) tells us that Stanhope didn't wanted Raleigh to be pick, because even though Stanhope is tried of Raleigh being send to his Company, he still don't want anything to happen to Raleigh. We could might think that the reason Stanhope doesn't want anything to happen to Raleigh is because of his sister. That Stanhope doesn't want to be the one who has to tell Raleigh's sister if anything bad happens, because of their past together. Or maybe he is still affected by the words he heard Raleigh had used to describe him with.