Davidge away from the shipyard for a brief
honeymoon.

"You're such a great executive, they'll never miss you. But I shall. I
decline to take my honeymoon or live my married life alone."

They went up to Washington for a while of shopping. The city was
already reverting to type. The heart had gone out of the stay-at-home
war-workers and the tide was on the ebb save for a new population of
returned soldiers, innumerably marked with the proofs of sacrifice,
not only by their service chevrons, their wound stripes, but also by
the parts of their brave bodies that they had left in France.

They were shy and afraid of themselves and of the world, and
especially of their women. But, as Adelaide wrote of the new task of
rehabilitation, "a merciful Providence sees to it that we become, in
time, used to anything. If we had all been born with one arm or one
leg our lives and loves would have gone on just the same."

To many another woman, as to Mamise, was given the privilege of adding
herself to her wounded lover to complete him.

Polly Widdicombe, seeing Mamise and Davidge dancing together, smiled
through her tears, almost envying her her husband. Davidge danced as
well with one arm as with two, but Mamise, as she clasped that blunt
shoulder and that pocketed sleeve, was given the final touch of
rapture made perfect with regret: she had the aching pride of a
soldier's sweetheart, for she could say:

"I am his right arm."

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