now. What a night! Funny, I ought to be tired after all that. Can’t sleep, though. Better try and get some shut-eye: Reilly’ll be in with the tea in three hours. Bloody dark getting back across the airfield—had to guess where I was going, then walked straight into the side of one of the hangars. ...
‘The policeman told me what happened, Mum. I’m so sorry. You should have come round to me if you thought Aunt Rosemary was missing. We could have …’ She stopped, evidently not knowing what they could have, but glaring at Ballard as if it would have been a lot better than anything he or Carter cou...