“What a night!” she exclaimed. “This is one night when I shouldn’t be surprised if all the stars were to fall!”
When she at last stood before the colonel with a smart salute, her usual composure came back to her, for the colonel at once put her at her ease.
“I understand you had a little trouble today,” he said quietly.
“We lost our station,” she admitted.
“Bombed out?”
“Yes. But not until we had done our work.”
“That’s fine.” The colonel gave her a rare smile.
“We recovered our radar set,” she added.
“You did?” He showed some surprise.
“Yes. It was blown into a gully by the bomb. Getting down wasn’t easy. But we had it to do. There are secrets to radar, you know.”