Was there a dark place in there somewhere they may have wondered?
The combination of his vanity, his ambition - and the fact that he cut a fine figure both in and out of uniform, found him to be able to court friendships, certainly with the opposite s*x all too easily, with admiring glances that followed him around in any gathering. With the females he broke the rules of casual friendliness: he stood too close, looked too hard and touched too often...and some women loved it, but others found it creepy. From his personal, physical attributes, a degree of arrogance eventually attached itself to PC Lyneham, an arrogance that allowed him to play the Romeo with any female's heart, so confident was he of his amorous talents.
The prospect of promotion came and went he was not really interested.
