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Show 19 Satterwhite's lips. "Major Hammond is so good to you. So good. I'm not sura" - she looked around with furtive pride - Marvin would allow it. The ferry is, in effect, government property." "It's just this once." Mrs Satterwhite rocked her head, in half-conscious parody. "Once is the way to twice, Mother said. Thin edge of the wedge. But maybe the Major's right. Marvin is much too conscientious, I often tell him so. 'The Detachments aren't so strict,* I say. 'Hammond lets them do whatever they wish.'11 "I don't think -- " Mrs Satterwhite laid her hand on Louise's, and her voice was confessional. "I'm just getting Marvin's back up. A wifely jab, to keep him in form. Not that he cares. 'There's the army way and the wrong way.' he says." Louise continued to find her opponents serves unplayable, and sat silent. Mrs Satterwhite cast a firm glance, and then gazed around the beach. "Surely," she said, "this isn't all - " "The Major's at Taira." "Leaving, I suppose, someone on duty." "Captain Bain." "Bain." Mrs Satterwhite closed her eyes, trying to remember. "An older officer. White-headed. Has a . . . strong voice." "Ah yes: roars like a foghorn. Now I remember. Some of your people. . . ." The sentence dropped momentarily. "Then |