“Why were they called the Pinks?”
“A sort of rival show to the Blues.”
“But why the Blues?”
Bill shook his head and laughed. “Why anything?”
“Yes—why anything?”
“Had he got a decoration?”
As a matter of fact he had several. And a little shamefacedly he admitted it.
Then why didn’t he wear them?
People didn’t wear their decorations except on full-dress occasions.
“If I had a V. C.,” said Miss Du Rance, “I should just wear it any old time. And King George himself wouldn’t stop me.”