11/41 During the two years she had been at school, Pamela had thought very little of Arthur Chicksands. She was absorbed in one of those devotions to a woman--her schoolmistress--very common among girls of strong character, and sometimes disastrous. In her case it had worked well. She thought she had forgotten Arthur Chicksands, and was certain he must have forgotten her. As it happened they had never met since his return to the front in the autumn of 1915--Pamela was then seventeen and a schoolgirl--or, as she now put it, a baby. |