16/25 Some of Louis' and my adventures have since given me serious pause when casting sociological generalisations. But it was all good and innocently youthful, and I learned one generalisation, biological rather than sociological, namely, that the "Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." And before long I learned girl's love, all the dear fond deliciousness of it, all the glory and the wonder. She was between fifteen and sixteen. Her little skirt reached her shoe-tops. |