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Updated: May 17, 2025
They went up once and down again, and at the Casino grounds Teanie stopped them. "'Nough," she said; "I'm for home and bed. You two dears can finish up without me." "Oh, we must see you home," said Peter. The doctor laughed. "Think I shall get stolen?" she demanded. "Someone would have to get up pretty early for that. No, padre, I'm past the need of being escorted, thanks. Good-night.
There was a bit of a moon, with clouds scurrying by, and when it shone the road was damp and glistening in the moonlight. "What a heavenly night!" said Julie. "Come on with us along the sea-front, Teanie do!" Miss Melville smiled up at them. "I reckon you'd prefer to be alone," she said. Peter glanced at Julie, and then protested. "No," he said; "do come on," and Julie rewarded him with a smile.
"Oh, Teanie, you'll be the death of me," she said at last. "Solomon, are we married? I don't think so, Teanie. There's never no telling these days, but I can't recollect it." "Well, it strikes me you ought to be if you're jogging round the country together," said the other, her eyes twinkling. "But if you're not, take warning, padre.
We had some poor chaps in who were damnably knocked about, and one could do a lot for them in roundabout ways. Regulations are made to be broken in some cases, I think. But she was a holy terror. Sooner than call her, the boys would endure anything, but some of us knew, and once she caught Julie here..." "It wasn't it was you, Teanie."
"What do you think of my rig?" demanded Dr. "Toppin'," said Julie critically. "But what in the world is it? Chiefly Waac, with three pukka stars and an R.A.M.C. badge. Teanie, how dare you do it?" "I dare do all that doth become a woman," she answered complacently. "And it doth, doth it not?
He won't be horrified unless you go into details. If I cough, Solomon, you're to change the subject. Carry on, Teanie." "Well, Pockett was a nurse of about the last limit. She was fearfully snobby, which nobody of that name ought to be, and she ruled her pros. with a rod of iron. I expect that was good for them, and I say nothing as to that, but she was a beast to the boys.
She was never at a loss, and apparently had no care in the world. The two girls and Peter went together to dinner and sat at the same table. They talked a good deal together, and Peter gathered they had come to know each other at a hospital in England. They were full of reminiscences. "Do you remember ducking Pockett?" Teanie asked Julie. "Lor', I should think I do! Tell Peter.
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