Later , he had gonegodown to his mother 's room and had spokenspeakthus : " Ma , I 'm going to enlist . "
It was n't till after he had spokenspeakthat he became awareawareof how much there had been in him of response ; when the tone of her own rejoinderrejoinder, as well as the playplayof something more in her face -- something more , that is , than its apparently usual restless light -- seemed to notify him .