QUOTE	Q298	7	0	7	6	“ I beg your pardon . ”
QUOTE	Q299	18	0	18	3	“ Yes ? ”
QUOTE	Q300	21	0	21	5	“ It must be ! ”
QUOTE	Q301	22	0	22	9	“ Yes -- it is the only way . ”
QUOTE	Q302	23	6	23	12	“ You are an American ? ”
QUOTE	Q303	24	0	24	3	“ Yes . ”
QUOTE	Q304	25	0	25	5	“ A patriotic one ? ”
QUOTE	Q305	27	0	28	5	“ I guess you ’ve no right to ask such a thing ! Of course I am ! ”
QUOTE	Q306	29	0	31	16	“ Do n’t be offended . You would n’t be if you knew how much there was at stake . But I ’ve got to trust some one -- and it must be a woman . ”
QUOTE	Q307	32	0	32	3	“ Why ? ”
QUOTE	Q308	33	0	34	0	“ Because of ‘ women and children first . ’”
QUOTE	Q309	35	0	40	5	“ I ’m carrying papers -- vitally important papers . They may make all the difference to the Allies in the war . You understand ? These papers have _ got _ to be saved ! They ’ve more chance with you than with me . Will you take them ? ”
QUOTE	Q310	42	0	46	10	“ Wait -- I must warn you . There may be a risk -- if I ’ve been followed . I do n’t think I have , but one never knows . If so , there will be danger . Have you the nerve to go through with it ? ”
QUOTE	Q311	48	0	50	9	“ I ’ll go through with it all right . And I ’m real proud to be chosen ! What am I to do with them afterwards ? ”
QUOTE	Q312	51	0	55	4	“ Watch the newspapers ! I ’ll advertise in the personal column of the _ Times _ , beginning ‘ Shipmate . ’ At the end of three days if there ’s nothing -- well , you ’ll know I ’m down and out . Then take the packet to the American Embassy , and deliver it into the Ambassador ’s own hands . Is that clear ? ”
QUOTE	Q313	56	0	56	4	“ Quite clear . ”
QUOTE	Q314	57	0	57	12	“ Then be ready -- I ’m going to say good-bye . ”
QUOTE	Q315	59	0	60	5	“ Good-bye . Good luck to you , ”
QUOTE	Q316	66	0	66	6	“ TOMMY , old thing ! ”
QUOTE	Q317	67	0	67	6	“ Tuppence , old bean ! ”
QUOTE	Q319	71	0	71	8	“ Not seen you for simply centuries , ”
QUOTE	Q320	72	0	75	7	“ Where are you off to ? Come and chew a bun with me . We ’re getting a bit unpopular here -- blocking the gangway as it were . Let ’s get out of it . ”
QUOTE	Q321	77	0	77	4	“ Now then , ”
QUOTE	Q322	77	8	77	14	“ where shall we go ? ”
QUOTE	Q324	80	0	80	7	“ Tommy , you ’re stony ! ”
QUOTE	Q325	81	0	81	7	“ Not a bit of it , ”
QUOTE	Q326	82	0	82	5	“ Rolling in cash . ”
QUOTE	Q327	83	0	83	8	“ You always were a shocking liar , ”
QUOTE	Q328	83	13	84	4	“ though you did once persuade Sister Greenbank that the doctor had ordered you beer as a tonic , but forgotten to write it on the chart . Do you remember ? ”
QUOTE	Q329	86	0	89	12	“ I should think I did ! Was n’t the old cat in a rage when she found out ? Not that she was a bad sort really , old Mother Greenbank ! Good old hospital -- demobbed like everything else , I suppose ? ”
QUOTE	Q330	91	0	92	3	“ Yes . You too ? ”
QUOTE	Q331	94	0	94	5	“ Two months ago . ”
QUOTE	Q332	95	0	95	3	“ Gratuity ? ”
QUOTE	Q333	96	0	96	3	“ Spent . ”
QUOTE	Q334	97	0	97	5	“ Oh , Tommy ! ”
QUOTE	Q335	98	0	100	24	“ No , old thing , not in riotous dissipation . No such luck ! The cost of living -- ordinary plain , or garden living nowadays is , I assure you , if you do not know ---- ”
QUOTE	Q336	100	25	100	30	“ My dear child , ”
QUOTE	Q337	100	34	102	4	“ there is nothing I do _ not _ know about the cost of living . Here we are at Lyons ’ , and we will each of us pay for our own . That ’s it ! ”
QUOTE	Q340	107	11	107	18	“ Funny scraps one does overhear , ”
QUOTE	Q341	108	0	109	8	“ I passed two Johnnies in the street to-day talking about some one called Jane Finn . Did you ever hear such a name ? ”
QUOTE	Q342	113	0	113	10	“ And mind the tea comes in separate teapots , ”
QUOTE	Q343	123	0	123	4	“ Now then , ”
QUOTE	Q344	123	15	124	15	“ let ’s get up-to-date . Remember , I have n’t seen you since that time in hospital in 1916 . ”
QUOTE	Q345	125	0	125	4	“ Very well . ”
QUOTE	Q346	127	0	151	7	“ Abridged biography of Miss Prudence Cowley , fifth daughter of Archdeacon Cowley of Little Missendell , Suffolk . Miss Cowley left the delights ( and drudgeries ) of her home life early in the war and came up to London , where she entered an officers ’ hospital . First month : Washed up six hundred and forty-eight plates every day . Second month : Promoted to drying aforesaid plates . Third month : Promoted to peeling potatoes . Fourth month : Promoted to cutting bread and butter . Fifth month : Promoted one floor up to duties of wardmaid with mop and pail . Sixth month : Promoted to waiting at table . Seventh month : Pleasing appearance and nice manners so striking that am promoted to waiting on the Sisters ! Eighth month : Slight check in career . Sister Bond ate Sister Westhaven ’s egg ! Grand row ! Wardmaid clearly to blame ! Inattention in such important matters can not be too highly censured . Mop and pail again ! How are the mighty fallen ! Ninth month : Promoted to sweeping out wards , where I found a friend of my childhood in Lieutenant Thomas Beresford ( bow , Tommy ! ) , whom I had not seen for five long years . The meeting was affecting ! Tenth month : Reproved by matron for visiting the pictures in company with one of the patients , namely : the aforementioned Lieutenant Thomas Beresford . Eleventh and twelfth months : Parlourmaid duties resumed with entire success . At the end of the year left hospital in a blaze of glory . After that , the talented Miss Cowley drove successively a trade delivery van , a motor-lorry and a general ! The last was the pleasantest . He was quite a young general ! ”
QUOTE	Q347	152	0	152	6	“ What blighter was that ? ”
QUOTE	Q348	153	0	153	30	“ Perfectly sickening the way those brass hats drove from the War Office to the _ Savoy _ , and from the _ Savoy _ to the War Office ! ”
QUOTE	Q349	154	0	154	8	“ I ’ve forgotten his name now , ”
QUOTE	Q350	155	0	161	6	“ To resume , that was in a way the apex of my career . I next entered a Government office . We had several very enjoyable tea parties . I had intended to become a land girl , a postwoman , and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career -- but the Armistice intervened ! I clung to the office with the true limpet touch for many long months , but , alas , I was combed out at last . Since then I ’ve been looking for a job . Now then -- your turn . ”
QUOTE	Q351	162	0	162	10	“ There ’s not so much promotion in mine , ”
QUOTE	Q352	162	15	171	2	“ and a great deal less variety . I went out to France again , as you know . Then they sent me to Mesopotamia , and I got wounded for the second time , and went into hospital out there . Then I got stuck in Egypt till the Armistice happened , kicked my heels there some time longer , and , as I told you , finally got demobbed . And , for ten long , weary months I ’ve been job hunting ! There are n’t any jobs ! And , if there were , they would n’t give ‘ em to me . What good am I ? What do I know about business ? Nothing . ”
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