Yes, he had a pal out there, a Canadian who had done his bit and been invalided out of it.

They corresponded, and he expected to get in with him, the one's local knowledge eking out the other's technical.

No, he wasn't for marrying yet awhile; he'd wait till he'd got a place for the wife and kiddies.

Then he would.

The thought made him expand a bit, and Peter smiled to himself as he thought of his conversation with Langton over the family group.