A Man Called Darius by Paul Kelly

Author:Paul Kelly
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
Tags: war, second world war, WWII, life, train, nurse, military, Basra, India, 1945
ISBN: 9781849898287
Publisher: AUK Authors
Published: 2011-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

We left Rowan Trees on the following Friday, having been there for four days and feeling very refreshed and closer in friendship than we had ever been before in our lives. I know this may sound strange, as we were always paired off together as children and through adolescence; always regarded as those two scallywags, by the family, but unknown to anyone, least of all ourselves... we lived in worlds that were poles apart. Jeremy was the epitome of truth in my eyes after that short holiday, although I had always regarded him with very high esteem, all through our lives. There was always something aloof and different about him... some mysterious quality that I could never comprehend... and now we both knew why. I loved him, even more now, after his confessions, but I must admit, my heart ached for him when I considered the loneliness of his life and the sure certainty that he would never change. He was very well aware himself, that he could avoid or dodge the circumstances of loneliness by taking casual partners or one night stands and entering into a life of sham with the illusion of love, but Jeremy was not that type of person.

He also, by his own admission of being a snob, told me that Sebastian’s real name was ‘Charlie’. It was Jeremy who requested him to change it, because in Jeremy’s eyes, the tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed Adonis from East London looked more like a Sebastian than a Charlie. He also told me among other things, that the Reverend Richard Fotheringay... the Rev. Dick as he was better known, was not only partial to cream buns....

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