We'll Meet Again by Elise Darcy

Author:Elise Darcy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781913147068
Publisher: Penny Lane Press
Published: 2020-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Cassie sighed as she walked through the door into Evelyn’s apartment. She’d arrived the next afternoon without the blank notebook or Tabitha. Evelyn made her feelings crystal clear regarding talking about her life and Cassie writing it down for posterity. They were back to just reading Rosie’s diary.

Cassie discovered Evelyn was in a foul mood. Everything was wrong this morning; the temperature, the lighting in the lounge, even what she was wearing. It made Cassie wonder if she was coming down with something again. Either that or she was still annoyed about the cat in her apartment yesterday.

Cassie felt she better not tell her she’d been reading more of the diary. She couldn’t wait to find out what happened when Rosie returned to see the Canadian to apologise for accusing him of stealing her brother’s radio.

During the session with Evelyn, Cassie was almost caught out because she couldn’t remember where she got up to when she’d last read to Evelyn. Cassie had finished a good proportion of the notebook and already knew a lot of Rosie’s story, although she had yet to finish the diary. Things really got interesting when Rosie received the radio as a gift. It wasn’t long before her parents had a visit from the Ministry of Defence. In her diary, Rosie said it was all very hush hush.

When she saw the official-looking people turn up at the cottage, Rosie’s first thought was that her father had bribed someone in government to bring little Ted back. But their visit wasn’t about that.

They were recruiting radio enthusiasts for the war effort to work as VI’s or voluntary interceptors. They got hold of her brothers’ names through the RSGB, the Radio Society of Great Britain; an organisation of amateur radio enthusiasts. Rosie sidled into the room just as her father was telling them that the wireless would be no use to them now as her brothers died on the front.

‘I can do it,’ Rosie said. ‘I want to be a radio interceptor.’

All three men in the room turned to the sixteen-year-old slip of a thing. She looked closer to thirteen. They dismissed her, but in a kind way, saying that they appreciated her wanting to volunteer, but she wasn’t suitable.

Rosie answered back, ‘Is it because I’m too young or because I’m a girl?’ She expected them to say a bit of both. Instead, they surprised her by saying most of the lads they’d recruited were teenagers like her.

‘So, it’s because I’m a girl.’

They didn’t beat about the bush. ‘What girls have you met that know Morse code?’

Rosie’s frown disappeared. ‘Let me get this straight. You’re saying that if a girl was familiar with Morse code you’d recruit them?’

They exchanged a glance and said to Rosie, ‘Yes, why not.’

‘In that case, I accept.’

The two government officials looked at her perplexed.

‘I can assure you,’ said Rosie, puffing out her chest and acting self-important, ‘I am just as proficient in Morse code as the next man – or woman.’

‘Um…’ they both turned to look at Rosie’s father with a question.

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