Beyond the Spring Breeze novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Relieved
The company officer met us at eight the next morning in the assembly room at the end of the passage.
He had cleared the long table and set four chairs behind it.
Along the wall stood the whole company, two hundred plebes and upperclassmen, at parade rest.
I had not asked for an audience.
He had.
"There's been a complaint of a pattern of conduct," he said, dryly, "and I prefer a pattern be heard in front of those it affects."
Voight stood at attention near the door, pale.
The Iowa boy, the redhead, a dozen others in the front row looked straight ahead.
Ellis stood beside me.
On the bench by the window sat Roz, in a clean borrowed blouse, with one hand over her stomach.
She looked tiny.
She looked as if she wanted to be somewhere else.
"Miss Tilghman," the officer began. "You have something to tell this company."
She stood up.
Her knees shook so hard that I heard the bench scrape.
She said her name.
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