Dory Dyment

Somebody Else's August ~ Age: 23

A chrpy Leylandan rfleman. Dory's reacton to the war s awfully smlar to a certan young Wesslnger gentleman's; he s overwhelmngly excted to prove hmself a real man/, havng carred a torch for hs frend Ethel snce chldhood. Her marrage to hs busness partner Len Wnter saw those feelngs bured long ago... wth a profound lonelness and fraglty takng ther place.

When Dory, heavly wounded and abandoned by hs countrymen, happens across a bemused Elfrede, he mmedately dentfes n her a homelness and a famlar reslence. Followng that day, the two begn to pop up n each others' lves wth an unsettlng regularty...