Polly's Angel by Katie Flynn

Author:Katie Flynn [Katie Flynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Grace and Fanny soon settled into their new station, and Grace began to enjoy her new job, for though Fanny was still on cookhouse duties Grace had been promoted. She would be tried out as an RT operator, which meant that she would be working in the control tower, talking the planes off and back, would be doing shiftwork, and would most definitely be learning new skills.

‘The jerries were talking about invasion at the time of Dunkirk,’ the officer who began to train Grace told her. ‘Everyone believes that will be their next move, but before they can carry it out without the risk of being wiped off the board they’ll have to gain air supremacy. That means we’ll need every plane we’ve got to fight them off, and every girl with enough intelligence to help in the fight must use her wits and strain every nerve to see our chaps get down safely. Savvy?’

He was probably no more than forty, with a huge blonde moustache and a sprightly way of walking which the girls imitated when he was out of sight, but he was talking sense and Grace knew it, so she threw herself into her training with the greatest enthusiasm and very soon was as useful as any other WAAF RT operators on the station. ‘It stands for radio telephone operators,’ she said in a letter to Polly. ‘I think that’s because we hear the chaps over their radio sets, but we talk back to them on a sort of telephone thing which hangs down just by our mouths. I really feel I’m being useful, Poll, at last. This is a million times better than adding up columns of figures and paying a queue of men their wages.’

She wondered whether the censor would start clipping out half of this letter, but did not worry overmuch. She would see Polly when she next got a decent leave and would be able to tell her in person much of what was happening to her.

And what was happening was a great deal more exciting than just being a RT operator. For the first time in her life, Grace had met a young man who really mattered to her, though the fact that he was Polly’s boyfriend might have taken the gloss off Grace’s feelings for Sunny had she ever considered herself as being in competition with her young friend.

For Grace, who had dreaded meeting the dreadful young man who had set her darling Polly’s feet on the road to wickedness, found that she liked Sunny more than any other young man she had met. He was incredibly handsome, she had guessed that he would be, but that he was kind, understanding, sympathetic and good company had come as a total shock to her. Most of the handsome young men she met – and she met a good few now that she was in the WAAF – were not in the least bit interested in a tall, shy, rather plain WAAF,

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