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The boat went steadily, cutting the waves with its sound like the flowing of stiff silk

Charlotte and Sutton and McClane, stranded at Dunkirk on their way to England, had been taken on board the naval transport Victoria They were the only passengers besides so soldiers, and these had left the by herself under the lee of a cabin when McClane ca his hands So had pleased hiet you three And that I should get those ambulances"

She couldn't tell whether he ot what he wanted or that he had foreseen John Conway's fate which would ultiive it him

"The ambulances--Yes You alanted them"

"Not more than I wanted you and Sutton"

He seeonis till it had died down before he spoke again He was sitting beside her now

"What are you going to do about Conway?"

"Nothing Except lie about hi as you don't lie about him to yourself"

"I've lied about him to other people Never to myself I was in love with him, if that's what you mean But he finished that What's finished is finished I haven't a scrap of feeling for him left"

"Are you quite sure?"

"Quite I'iven hiet him"