Pastoral (2010)
“ROBERT HERRICK, 1648 Marshall turned to her in pleased surprise. “Would you really like to see it?”
“I don’t mind,” she said.
“Will you listen if I tell you how I caught it?”
“Not for very long. But I’d quite to like to see it.”
“Okay,” he said. “I’ve got it in the dining-room.”
It was the first time that he had spoken to Section Officer Robertson. She had been with the Wing for about a month, but the W.A.A.F. officers kept themselves very much to themselves. They used the ante-room and lunched... with the officers, but they had their own sitting-room in their own quarters to relax in. In the mess and in the ante-room they were carefully correct, and brightly cheerful, and rather inhuman; when they wanted to read the Picturegoer or mend their underwear they went to their own place to do it. It was suggested to them when they took commissions that good W.A.A.F. officers did not contract personal relationships with young men on their own station. As candidates for commissions they were serious about their work and desperately keen about the honour of the Service, and so some of them didn’t.MoreLess
“I don’t mind,” she said.
“Will you listen if I tell you how I caught it?”
“Not for very long. But I’d quite to like to see it.”
“Okay,” he said. “I’ve got it in the dining-room.”
It was the first time that he had spoken to Section Officer Robertson. She had been with the Wing for about a month, but the W.A.A.F. officers kept themselves very much to themselves. They used the ante-room and lunched... with the officers, but they had their own sitting-room in their own quarters to relax in. In the mess and in the ante-room they were carefully correct, and brightly cheerful, and rather inhuman; when they wanted to read the Picturegoer or mend their underwear they went to their own place to do it. It was suggested to them when they took commissions that good W.A.A.F. officers did not contract personal relationships with young men on their own station. As candidates for commissions they were serious about their work and desperately keen about the honour of the Service, and so some of them didn’t.MoreLess
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