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that stock phrase which has long since set us smiling whenever it's repeated - the one about "doing what's expected of you because, you know, you are to be [[underline]] officers [[/underline]]!" Leftenant Steward is rather a dry Englishman. He can tell an obvious joke and quirk his mouth into a wry smile. He gives short commands and get peevish if he can't make a whole flight do it's duty by addressing them a few times. He is not a speaker and while telling us his mind does not look at us directly, but elevates his gaze from the blades of grass he flicks now and then with that everlastingly attached fixture - his cane. His personal appearance is a slightly hooked nose in a narrow face; hair quite thin on top; lean fingers; a soldierly carriage.

I've seen other English officers with less soldierly bearing and more pomposity than the average. The disciplinarian officer who