18
Love at Second Sight
8 December 1943
By this time, he should be used to disappointment. But it seemed he wasn’t quite yet.
The anticipation he’d felt that day in the colonel’s office after the first concert had fizzled to this dismal compromise.
There was no doubt the prisoners were prisoners, in spite of the alliance overseas, so he should be grateful for this small mercy.
And small it was! He had to share the bill with Scottish dancers doing the highland fling, “fling” being the operative word; a pas de deux during which the male dancer dropped the loudly protesting ballerina; a fairly gifted uomo macho wearing a kilt and playing the bagpipes; and, he had to admit, a surprisingly well-acted snippet from Romeo and Juliet.
If the merest hint of possibility of getting word to Iris
