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a cushy job this side of the channel for the duration. I am living a very quiet and virtuous life (on the surface) but manage to get a fair amount of enjoyment in my spare time. My hotel is in Bloomsbury handy for getting down to the office and a convenient neighbourhood to get lost in. The powers that be are determined to make life as miserable as possible for any officer below the rank of colonel thanks to the misdemeanours of a few little blighters who couldn't combine temporary gentlemanliness with a temporary commission, so one must needs practise much discretion in the pursuit of pleasure. We are not allowed to dance in uniform, we are not allowed to get into mufti, we are not allowed to be inside a restaurant after 10 o'clock so most of our pleasure is taken strictly in the q.t. However I'm getting old and I really don't feel these restrictions much, as I prefer my club to any gilded salon of the idle rich! I don't think I'm blasé but anno domini bids me seek a comfy chair of an evening rather than the bright lights.

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 5 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1917.