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"Was he by any chance stationed at Poona in nineteen-ten, eleven?" "He was." "But, bless my soul he was my brother-in-law Dick Dick Benham's best friend." The Major's slightly ironical homage had given place to a serious excitement, a respectful interest. "Oh Dicky Benham is he ?" "Rather. I've heard him talk about Frank Levitt scores of times. Do you hear that, Waddington? Mrs.
If he kept it up, we said, he'd be a millionaire before he died of it. But it wasn't conceivable that he could keep it up for long. We thought he'd never write another play like this one. There never would be another year like nineteen-ten. I believe that even Jimmy thought there'd never be another year like it, so far had he surpassed his own calculations, as it was.
It was not till years later that Veronica knew that "He wanted most awfully to know whether you saw them too" meant "He wanted most awfully to know whether you really were his daughter." Three years passed. It was the autumn of nineteen-ten. Anthony's house was empty for the time being of all its children except Dorothea. Michael was in the beginning of his last year at Cambridge.
But for me nineteen-ten is the year of other things, the things that happened in the family, the year of Reggie's return and all the misery that came from it, the year of Viola's struggle the agony of which we, Norah and I, were the helpless spectators. She never said a word to us. It was Norah who conveyed to me the secret, intimate shock of it.
I used to wonder whether this oscillation would slacken or increase with time. Would she swing on a longer and more dangerous rhythm? Would she be flung backwards and forwards between fascination and repulsion? And I would catch myself up and answer my own words, "Of course not. The poor chap isn't as bad as all that." Then early in nineteen-ten Reggie Thesiger came home on leave from India.
Never in all her life had she been so at peace; never since her girlhood had she been so gay. This state of hers had lasted exactly two years and four months, thus clearly dating from her bereavement. For it was in May of nineteen-ten that he had died, and she was now in September nineteen-twelve. She might not have been aware of it but that it, her happiness, had only six months more to run.
It was in nineteen-ten, their last year in Edwardes Square, that the tension began. Norah and I were married in the autumn of nineteen-nine, and we were living in my flat in Brunswick Square. In what I made out during this period I had Norah to help me, and she had wonderful lights. You cannot go on attacking, for years on end, with concentrated and increasing violence, and not suffer for it.
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