Joseph Gray's Camouflage by Mary Horlock

Author:Mary Horlock [Horlock, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783524679
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

[H]ere’s too the new phase of life, sweetheart. Am I writing too many love letters P.F.? Will you soon begin to take me for granted – as you used to say I took you (which I never did). Is it better to be ignored or adored? I do so adore you. Do you like being adored? X.

Mary lived for each letter but wrote back less and less. The contrast between their two lives could not have been more acute. Joe was ricocheting all over the country, always so much in demand, and Mary stayed in Bath, where every day was the same. He realised he had to make an effort to visit, and tried to arrange field inspections that incorporated a stopover. ‘I have a job at Swindon which is not too far away and I hope to pop in for the night. So don’t get excited if you receive a telegram – it will only be to say I am coming.’ Of course he was careful, booking rooms at local pubs, paying his respects to Kitty Meade but never daring to impose as a guest.

The trouble was, whenever Joe materialised, it caused a ‘disruption’. It was as if a bomb had dropped. He would be exhilarated from a long day’s flying and Mary would feel sidelined, even jealous. Joe was aware of the disparity between their lives but his usual strategies of appeasement didn’t work. Mary with her agile mind was easily agitated, and she felt under such scrutiny living back with her mother. She still loved Joe, with perhaps more intensity, and he felt entirely the same, yet they were slipping into a dreadful pattern – a brief encounter followed by an anguished parting. He always had to go back to his work, back to London, to the Board, to all his camouflage comrades. Mary felt she was fighting a whole other war with him, and not one she could win.

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