4/11 She sent you a telegram because she could not bear to write." Martin had understood that. He had had little news of her during the two years--a few lines about Harry in the crowded obituaries of the newspapers after the attack in 1917 on the Messines Ridge, where he met his death, and six months afterwards the announcement that a son was born. "At first she refused to believe that Harry was killed. He was reported as 'missing' for weeks; and during those weeks Joan, with a confident face--whatever failings of the heart beset her during the night vigils none ever knew--daily sought for news of him at the Red Cross office at Devonshire House. There had been the usual rumours. |