information to say that they had actually managed to sink this u—boat, and were on their way back. they were able to crawl back to canada this time, they were the other side of the atlantic, and so they managed to get back at about 12 knots, which is a safe speed they could go at. when eventually he arrived in canada, he was able to ring me up and say he had arrived safely. well, it was amazing of course, and you know, we just both felt, well, there's nothing you could say — just "thank goodness, thank goodness, "thank goodness." you know, that's all you could do. you couldn't look far into the future, you might only have had a fortnight�*s leave and he may be killed at the end of it. you had no idea what was going to happen, so you just put up with it, and if something was there, the present, it was there, you did it. whatever.