The Second-Last Woman in England
“That would have pleased Valerie, Harriet thought with a brief smile. She would be dining out on that for a month.
There was nothing in The Times about Empire and Colonial, or about the man who had stolen from Cecil’s firm. Instead there had been another piece about Daphne’s husband, Peter Goodfellow, only this time the story was less about Peter himself and more about revelations that Mr Goodfellow’s nephew, a junior naval officer in the war, had been convicted on a charge of dereliction of... duty in June of ’43 and had duly been court-martialled. It had been suggested in some quarters that the Honourable Mr Goodfellow’s recent resignation from the Ministry and his earlier failure to win a Cabinet posting in the recent reshuffle—a post he had been widely tipped to win—were connected to this revelation. The Times concluded by noting that, while it was not the British way to lay the guilt for one man’s action at the doorstep of another, would the Honourable Mr Goodfellow feel himself able, in light of the above-mentioned revelations about his family, to continue to serve his constituents?MoreLess
There was nothing in The Times about Empire and Colonial, or about the man who had stolen from Cecil’s firm. Instead there had been another piece about Daphne’s husband, Peter Goodfellow, only this time the story was less about Peter himself and more about revelations that Mr Goodfellow’s nephew, a junior naval officer in the war, had been convicted on a charge of dereliction of... duty in June of ’43 and had duly been court-martialled. It had been suggested in some quarters that the Honourable Mr Goodfellow’s recent resignation from the Ministry and his earlier failure to win a Cabinet posting in the recent reshuffle—a post he had been widely tipped to win—were connected to this revelation. The Times concluded by noting that, while it was not the British way to lay the guilt for one man’s action at the doorstep of another, would the Honourable Mr Goodfellow feel himself able, in light of the above-mentioned revelations about his family, to continue to serve his constituents?MoreLess
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