The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.

… and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.

In this chapter, we look at how women coordinate the everyday scheduling disjuncture between paid employment, both theirs and their husbands, and the scheduling of the school.

Be gladde lordes bothe more and lasse, / For this hath ordeyned our stewarde / To chere you all this Christmasse / The bores heed with mustarde.