Letter: Portrait of a lady
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Edward Teague (5 October) asks for the military term for a female cad or bounder.
An old-fashioned answer is given in L. P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between, set at the turn of the last century. The ex-soldier Lord Trimingham says that 'Nothing is ever a lady's fault'. Is this particular Victorian value still current in military circles?
Yours faithfully,
G. R. BROOKSHAW
Eastbourne,
East Sussex
5 October
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