How would you interpret these sentences in the second to last passage? 1 You see I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. How would you interpret ‘the other thing’ in the sentence? What does it refer to? 2 I know all about it now. How would you interpret ‘it’ in the sentence? What does it refer to? 3 But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know. How would you interpret ‘I didn’t know’? Does it mean she didn’t know her fiancé wanted to go to war? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.the context: "What is the stick?" I asked. Miss Barkley was quite tall. She wore what seemed to me to be a nurse's uniform, was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. I thought she was very beautiful. She was carrying a thin rattan stick like a toy riding-crop, bound in leather. "It belonged to a boy who was killed last year." "I'm awfully sorry." "He was a very nice boy. He was going to marry me and he was killed in the Somme." "It was a ghastly show." "Were you there?" "No." "I've heard about it," she said. "There's not really any war of that sort down here. They sent me the little stick. His mother sent it to me. They returned it with his things." "Had you been engaged long?" "Eight years. We grew up together." "And why didn't you marry?" "I don't know," she said. "I was a fool not to. I could have given him that anyway. But I thought it would be bad for him." "I see.""Have you ever loved any one?" "No," I said. We sat down on a bench and I looked at her. "You have beautiful hair," I said. "Do you like it?" "Very much." "I was going to cut it all off when he died." "No." "I wanted to do something for him. You see I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know." I did not say anything.4 By the way, how would you interpret another sentence in the same passage: He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. How would you interpret ‘I would have known’? Did she mean if she would have known what her fiancé wanted? Or did she mean if she would have known that her fiancé would die? Or did she mean if she would have known the ‘it’ mentioned in the next sentence?