Dogs that had been his which she had not known. "There's dear old Punch…" {Punch, he used to tell her, always knew when his ship was due home, and waited at an upstairs window.} Naval officers riding donkeys… playing tennis… running races, all this before the war, and it had made her think, "unconscious of their doom, the little victims play," because on the next page it became suddenly sad, the ship he had loved blown up, and so many of those laughing young men lost.
( Daphne du Maurier )
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