Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.

All round me were tokens of a divided empire. The old grass and the new grass were striving together. In the low wet swales the verdure peeped out in vivid green ; beyond, on the mountains, lay light patches of snow, strangely relieved against their russet sides; all the humped hills looked like brindled kine in the shivers.

The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.

Thomas had used the bilingual sea in Quite Early One Morning (1945), so that two-tongued was a product of a natural piece of wordplay.