"But you hadn't been sent off, that I knew of," she says. So that meant he had to have been taken around the same time everything on her end was happening. It made sense why she wouldn't have known. Have been able to even realize.

Things had not been good, those last days in London.

"So must have happened around the same time I came here. Cor- 21! Who'd've thought it! You'll be gray in no time."