Utter nonsense! I'll buy a ticket at the station! See if they can stop me. Never known a woman like her. She says she's going to come and see for herself! On no account... On no account is Mrs Tietjens to be allowed within 50 miles of Rouen. Understood? Inform the War Office, the Provost Marshal, the port authorities and the rail authorities. I will not have skirts around my HQ! More importantly, General Perry is now on the telephone twice a day. He has troops who were due to be relieved weeks ago, and I have troops waiting for Ordnance to supply them with eyebrow tweezers while our political masters keep changing their minds whether to send them up the line or ship them to Salonika or Mesopotamia or Timbuktu! But I have one draft of Canadian troops ready to go to the front today. That's the draft prepared by Captain Tietjens's unit. Captain Thurston, do I have the trains or do I not?