Possible Clues:

• Soldiers left part of church seeing deterioration
• Turning paler, initially suffer extreme return to bad health
• Again decline drinks, with smoke briefly put round
• Start to reduce crush — please, fall back!
• Regress, backslide
• Soldiers having drinks with recreational drug get ill again
• Fall back on large recess in church
• Runs slip away causing setback
• Run, pass and turn poorly again
• Leper as treated to deteriorate