In Pale Battalions
“Maybe I would in your shoes. I’m a rich, free foreigner and no target for kraut bullets. But is that my fault?”
“Of course not.” We came to where he should have turned down into Droxford. Instead, he turned right and began to drive up a rough lane towards the tops of the downs. “This isn’t the right way,” I said.
“It is for what I want to show you.”
“Which is?”
“What you need to understand. You see, I know why you resent me. It isn’t just because the States are neutral. It’s also because you th...ink I’m too much at home at Meongate, too familiar, too popular.”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Yes you do. You think I’m intruding on Hallows’s property.
Isn’t that how it is?”
I wasn’t about to give him the satisfaction of knowing he was right. “Not at all.”
He pulled off onto the grass verge and jerked on the brake.
Beyond the hedge, the ground sloped steeply away and we had a clear view across the escarpment towards the yew-fringed summit of Old Winchester Hill.MoreLess
“Of course not.” We came to where he should have turned down into Droxford. Instead, he turned right and began to drive up a rough lane towards the tops of the downs. “This isn’t the right way,” I said.
“It is for what I want to show you.”
“Which is?”
“What you need to understand. You see, I know why you resent me. It isn’t just because the States are neutral. It’s also because you th...ink I’m too much at home at Meongate, too familiar, too popular.”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Yes you do. You think I’m intruding on Hallows’s property.
Isn’t that how it is?”
I wasn’t about to give him the satisfaction of knowing he was right. “Not at all.”
He pulled off onto the grass verge and jerked on the brake.
Beyond the hedge, the ground sloped steeply away and we had a clear view across the escarpment towards the yew-fringed summit of Old Winchester Hill.MoreLess
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