Brittain, Vera, Diary, 22 August 1915

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Diary of Vera Brittain

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Case Study: 
From Youth to Experience: Vera Brittain’s Work for Peace in Two World Wars
Creator: 
Brittain, Vera
Source: 
diary
Date: 
22 August 1915
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Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Vera Brittain estate; McMaster University has a non-exclusive licence to publish this document.

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00000298-30
Language: 
eng
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He asked us, still in the same indignant tones which stirred me to inward laughter, if we knew what the time was & realised we had to get up early in the morning etc. In fact he dusted us round like anything, & Mrs. Leighton teased him the next day about this assumption of authority over "his womenkind". In fact Roland the Feminist wanted to go to bed but was unable to do so while two disturbing women downstairs would insist on discussing matters concerned with himself.
When we left the dining room Mrs. Leighton seemed to disappear, and this time, perhaps too moved by the sight of the intimate connection of two people so dear to him, or possibly, too sleepy to feel shy, he actually kissed us goodnight. the silkiness of his fair moustache is a great contrast to the stiff bristley-ness of his close cropped head!