“We were there for a night.”
“How was it? I never been there but I’ve heard a lot about the girls there. Got a lot of Canadians there.”
“Well, they’re all over fifty.”
“That’s not what I heard.”
“That’s what I saw anyway.”
They drank their beer. “Come on,” said Hodges when they had finished, “let’s go in the dining room. I’m starved.”
“Didn’t they have food on that boat?”
“They had it but it was pretty hard to get down when you were jumping about like we were.”
The dining room smelt of steak. They took a table in a corner, and a man took their order.
Barkison, wearing his new silver leaves, entered the dining room with the Colonel. They nodded to the Lieutenants who nodded back.