Quotes from Gilbert Frankau

Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ; Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ; Courage that suns Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns.

The new C.R.A. seemed a sound man. These people— a little dull though some of them might be— were the kind with whom one liked consorting. Socially, the army had its advantages. Once cited as co-respondent by Hawk Wethered, one would be barred from a good many of those advantages. This house, for instance, might no longer be open to one.

If I had your inhibitions", she went on, "we'd never get anywhere. As it is we've dragged one truth to light. If you were in Guy's position you mightn't allow yourself to be divorced because you really do believe in your heart of hearts that marriage is a sacrament." Honesty made him interrupt, "I feel it ought to be".

Colonel Sir Guy Wethered's thoughts were still peculiar as he watched his guest open the door for his young wife. Danger had always stimulated him. And this might be danger of a new kind. "I made her marry me", he brooded. "And I'll damn well make her stay married to me. Whether she wants to or whether she doesn't." Not that there could be any real danger from Rusty. All the same…

The hero worship had just become obvious. He felt that he ought to be resenting it. All the same, the whiff of incense was not unsweet in his nostrils. Rather the reverse.

No Galahad, he still cherished the conviction that women, with rare exceptions, were either "good" or "bad".