I'll bet to cents that if a fellow with a broken
noze or a squint had told you, you'd have forgotten it the next
minute."
I was exasparated. Because I am tired of being told that
the defence of our Dear Country is a masculine matter.
"Carter" I said, "I do not beleive in the double, standard,
and never did."
"The what?"
"The double standard," I said with dignaty. "It was all
well and good when war meant wearing a kitchin stove and
wielding a lance. It is no longer so. And I will show you."
I did not mean to be boastfull, such not being my nature.
But I did not feel that one who had not yet enlisted, remarking
that there was time enough when the Enemy came over, etcetera,
had any right to criticise me.
12 MIDNIGHT. How can I set down what I have discovered? And
having recorded it, how be sure that Hannah will not snoop
around and find this record, and so ruin everything?
It is midnight. Leila is still out, bent on frivolaty. The
rest of the Familey sleeps quietly, except father, who has taken
cold and is breathing through his mouth, and I sit here alone,
with my secret.
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