XIV
Walter got work at the Admiralty. He deciphered telegrams. He went there immediately after breakfast, and did not come home till eight or half-past eight. He made a point of arriving sooner than the other people in his room, and of leaving after they did. He was paid much less than his University salary, and that he would not take.
His College offered to pay him some proportion of his salary while he was at Government work, but he refused it.
‘It is the least I can do,’ he said. ‘Other men have to leave their work, whatever it is, and lose everything. We must manage to live more cheaply.’
We decided to do without the gardener who came one day a week; I said that I would keep the garden tidy.
Walter said he would dig on Sundays.