43/44 How she had come on! 'I'm sorry,' he said mildly. 'Because, you know--if you don't mind my saying so--it'll really take the two of you to keep your father out of gaol. The Government's absolutely determined about this thing--they can't afford to be anything else. _We're_ being hammered, and gassed, and blown to pieces over there'-- he pointed eastward. 'It's the least the people over here can do--to play up--isn't it ?' Then he laughed. |