"He had a family of his own and what he said was 'She looked such a poor little drowned rat of a thing I couldn't make up my mind to run her in, ma'am.

This 'ere war's responsible for a lot more than what the newspapers tell about.

Young chaps in uniform having to brace up and perhaps lying awake in the night thinking over what the evening papers said--and young women they've been sweet-heartin' with--they get wild, in a way, and cling to each other and feel desperate--and he talks and she cries--and he may have his head blown off in a week's time.

And who wonders that there's trouble.' Do you know he actually told me that there were a number of girls he was keeping a watch on.

He said he'd begun to recognise a certain look in their eyes when they walked alone in the park.