>> "What's the occasion?" she asked with interest.
>>
> "Refit of several ships, plus some R and R at home. Well that is the
official line."
"Sounds morrre like a gatherrring of supporrrt to me, but then that's not
necessarrrily a bad thing."
(resp?)
"I think the next few days will be verrry interrresting."
(resp?)
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us,
to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
--Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860