The Sleeping Beauty
“‘That friend I went to stay with at Portsmouth, Len, I wondered if it would be any use asking him down here the next weekend we can get off.’ ‘Any use, darling? How do you mean? I like to meet your friends,’ Isabella said encouragingly.
‘I just wondered would you, though? He’s a bit of a rough diamond. I mean, the men you meet in the Army aren’t always too fancy, though very nice.’ ‘I think it is wonderful of you to be so adaptable.’ He blushed.
‘But I cannot understand why they don’t give you ...a commission like everyone else.’ ‘So this Len, you see, now the summer’s here said he felt like a breath of sea air.’ Then, remembering that Len’s home was also on the coast, he quickly added: ‘He likes a change.’ The truth was, Len was curious about Betty, of whom Laurence talked so much, and wished to give her, and Laurence’s home, as well, what he called the once-over. Laurence, though nervous of the impact of Len on his mother, was tempted by the picture of himself with Betty clinging to his arm: they would indulge in teasings and little familiarities in front of Len, as Len had before Laurence with his young lady.MoreLess
‘I just wondered would you, though? He’s a bit of a rough diamond. I mean, the men you meet in the Army aren’t always too fancy, though very nice.’ ‘I think it is wonderful of you to be so adaptable.’ He blushed.
‘But I cannot understand why they don’t give you ...a commission like everyone else.’ ‘So this Len, you see, now the summer’s here said he felt like a breath of sea air.’ Then, remembering that Len’s home was also on the coast, he quickly added: ‘He likes a change.’ The truth was, Len was curious about Betty, of whom Laurence talked so much, and wished to give her, and Laurence’s home, as well, what he called the once-over. Laurence, though nervous of the impact of Len on his mother, was tempted by the picture of himself with Betty clinging to his arm: they would indulge in teasings and little familiarities in front of Len, as Len had before Laurence with his young lady.MoreLess
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