Rainy turns to look at the source. There is a group of perhaps twenty people, mostly women, holding signs reading Eve is not Adam!!! and 1 Timothy 2:12. Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence!!! She doubts even the Christian Bible comes with that many exclamation points, and she toys with the idea of offering her own favorite verse from the Torah, Judges 4:21: “But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground . . .” But she thinks better of it. A future in military intelligence does not begin with picking fights in train stations. On the platform she tries to hear the garbled announcements from the public address, but it’s as noisy as a fair, with farewells all around her and the hissing of steam engines and the shouts of false gaiety from nervous and excited soldiers. She can hardly bear to look around her. So much sadness and worry from so many little family groups, so many mothers with tears, and so many fathers struggling not to reveal any emotion at all.
