The girls at his billet

They married early enough themselves, goodness knows. Father was twenty-one, and had only just taken on the big yacht-building business in this place. Mother was seventeen. A wh...

Aunt Victoria is so embedded in her old-fashioned, old-maidish ways that she doesn't realise anybody else could have it at any other time. She didn't dream of altering her hours...

When I was at school, it was our German mistress whom I loathed with a black and bitter hatred. I can't tell you how every detail about her used to get on my nerves, from the wa...

This evening Evelyn began asking the Incubus about the very tall, dark young man we had seen him walking with the time that I had failed to escape them both down by the Hard.

Perhaps you think it's for me to make special friends with one of the other young officers, one of those who are coming here on Saturday night? Oh, no. Something much more subtl...

I suppose everybody--I mean every girl body--will want to know what we three had to wear for this party? Nothing wildly exciting, I can tell you: the fact is we haven't got any...

"I think that if you know how pleased I was to have the charming picture, which is looking at me as I now write, even your kindness in having sent it would feel rewarded! It is...

My mind was in such a whirl of feelings that I really don't know whether I was most petrified with amazement or dumb with anger. I, that had been known from childhood's hours as...

Well, that was me as I tore out of our garden (still hatless and in my Saxe blue woolly coat) down the road towards Nowhere Junction and then came to the field that leads in the...

When I said it had been "a crowded day" I only meant at the time crowded with the little affairs of the Verdeley family. My finding out first of all about that unforgivable Incu...

Most of the bombs had fallen into a soft mud bank off the Hard. One had been dropped near the doctor's back-door and had killed a fowl. Two--I mean two bombs, not fowls--had jus...

But, do you know, a change has come over our Aunt Victoria? It is not the first time I have noticed it, either, since the troops have been here at Mud Flats. What with constantl...

"They left a message for you, sir," said the old man. "If another young orficer and a young lady was to turn up later I was to say that they had gone on to lunch at the hotel."

We got back to our house at about half-past six at night: the moon rising slowly but surely over the sea and silhouetting the figures of the soldiers working down by the jetty,...

Two long letters she has written! One is to Aunt Victoria, rather stilted and full of the most lovely words and phrases, and with "My husband" coming in about every second line.

I should have thought that Nancy's runaway marriage with Captain Masters would have been quite enough excitement for, say, the next two years, and that we need not have expected...

We had spent a very quiet time in the drawing-room, Aunt Victoria playing patience on her green-covered table by the fire, and I busily embroidering a chemise top which I had ju...

No, it isn't; it's the fault of that Miss Gates, the woman we met that lovely time on the road when he took me on his motor-cycle to the Junction.

At last! At last! After what has seemed seventeen years of waiting, and after Evelyn and I both feel that our hairs must have turned at least as grey as Aunt Victoria's! At _las...

It makes me perfectly miserable to see somebody I am fond of taking love as Evelyn takes it. Her smile is a most half-hearted affair, and she takes absolutely no interest in her...

I daresay I wasn't behaving like a lady; I didn't care if he thought I was a perfect un-lady and how could I be that angel's sister? Matter of utter indifference to me. He'd alr...

What Nancy went back and reported to Mr. Curtis I never heard. However, my conscience was simply beaming upon me for having done my little best to make two people happy. The aft...

I thought it would be rather cat-like not to when he did want to see me, after all, even if he is engaged to somebody else--I mean, to somebody. Besides, he might want to say so...

There I had to sit, feeling depressed to tears, with nothing to look at but a stack of dark grey milk-cans and an advertisement for Bovril. It seemed a century even when I found...

"Thanks so much for kind inquiries. Yes, I am getting on very nicely, and I hope soon to be perfectly fit and back again at work and in my comfortable billet with you.