You might have thought I could see it all coming. Landladies get very possessive. But look after them I did, despite the appalling blanketing heat, the jellied air of monsoons that never hatched. Arguing often as not with that military martinet who ran the place. It wasn't easy.
Nothing is easy.
Doctor Quigley, Matron Tullman, Misses Starck and Weber. Briefly, schoolmaster Vine. Then even more briefly that misfit Morrow. There isn't anything sadder than the educated poor. Caught and buzzing.