The Chalky Sea by Clare Flynn

Author:Clare Flynn [Flynn, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Cranbrook Press
Published: 2017-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Jim travelled back to Aldershot alone. He couldn’t face being with what he knew would be a blissful Ethel and Grass, and Joan had already left. He had gone along the corridor to use the bathroom and when he got back to the bedroom there was no sign of her. Rather than risk running into Ethel and Greg at breakfast he had left the hotel and gone to Maison Lyons at Marble Arch.

As the train made its short journey back to the military town, he told himself he’d been played for a fool. Joan had probably planned the whole thing. When they first arrived in Aldershot they’d been told to beware of the loose morals of English women and the dangers of venereal disease. The regimental medical officer had suggested that some women viewed Canadian soldiers like cigarette cards and aimed to collect as many as possible. His stomach lurched and he began to sweat. What if she’d given him an infection? Was he another notch on her bedpost?

He looked out of the steamed-up window as the train flew past rows of suburban houses. It was raining. Why had he thought it a good idea to come to this godforsaken country? He felt his face reddening and his skin prickled as the implications of what had happened dawned on him. He might as well have “sucker” tattooed across his forehead. All he wanted now was for the long-rumoured second front to open and give him a chance to fight the war. Now that the Yanks were in the frame, would Canada be even further down the pecking order?

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