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    Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.

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    No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.

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    Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

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    Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.

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    She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.

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    She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

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    The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.