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"I've heard so, but I've very seldom met her. She spends most of her time in London and I've been in Germany for the last four years."

"Have you really? In the Army of Occupation?"

"Yes. I had rather a good job, so I stuck to it. But the time came when I simply couldn't bear being away from home any longer."

She wondered if he was married. Hitherto she had taken for granted that he wasn't, but now she realized that she had done so entirely without evidence.

"You were alone out there—without your people?"

"Oh, I'm not married—yet." She thought she saw a teasing look in his eye as he smiled at her, "but I'm very fond of my father and mother and the place where I was born. It was the place as much as the people that I missed."

"Then have you always lived here?"

"Always—till I joined up in 1940. But perhaps you wouldn't call it living."

"Why not?"

"In this dead hole, fifteen miles from the nearest movie?"

"I bet you cover those fifteen miles pretty often."

Again he mocked her with a teasing eye.