The thing she has to do is to send some
one she cares about, and then sit back and wait."
As he saw that I was agatated, he then kissed me and
sugested that we learn something more than the first verse of
the National Hymn, as he was tired of making his lips move and
thus pretending to sing when not actualy doing so.
I shall now record about Carter Brooks coming today. I was
in a chair with pilows and so on, when Leila came in and kissed
me, and then said:
"Bab, are you able to see a caller?"
I said yes, if not the Police, as I had seen a great many
and was tired of telling about Henry and Henry's friend,
etcetera.
"Not the Police," she said.
She then went out in the hall and said:
"Come up. It's all right."
I then saw a Soldier in the door, and could not beleive
that it was Carter Brooks, until he saluted and said:
"Captain, I have come to report. Owing to the end of the
Easter Holadays the Girls' Aviation Corps----"
I could no longer be silent. I cried:
"Oh, Carter!"
So he came into the room and turned round, saying:
"Some soldier, eh?"
Leila had gone out, and all at once I knew that my
Patriotism was not what I had thought it, for I could not bear
to see him going to War, especialy as his mother would be lonly
without him.
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