CHAPTER X

THE SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT A fitful restlessness, difficulty in concentrating the attention, and occasional lapses into irritability commonly characterize men who have returned to civilian life, after longer or shorter periods of being only cogs in the great war machine. It was no surprise to Mrs. Armitage to recognize these symptoms in her son, and she said to Anne Rossiter that the only wonder was they had not manifested themselves long before. Her sympathetic understanding lending lustre to her rather pale eyes,…