9/48 It would remove her so hopelessly beyond his reach. By the time he could make a position, and an income visible to the naked eye, he would be grey-haired. Money was not made in the army. Rather was it becoming no place for a poor gentleman but the paradise of rich bounders, brainy little squits of swotters, and commission-without-training nondescripts--thanks to the growing insecurity of things among the army class and gentry generally. If she were really penniless he might--as a Captain--ask her to share his poverty--but was it likely shed be a spinster ten years hence--even if he were a Captain so soon? |