Walter got work at the Admiralty. He deciphered telegrams. He
went there immediately after breakfast, and did not come home
till eight or half-past eight. He made a point of arriving sooner
than the other people in his room, and of leaving after they
did. He was paid much less than his University salary, and that
he would not take.
His College offered to pay him some proportion of his salary
while he was at Government work, but he refused it.
‘It is the least I can do,’ he said. ‘Other men have to leave
their work, whatever it is, and lose everything. We must manage
to live more cheaply.’
We decided to do without the gardener who came one day a week;
I said that I would keep the garden tidy.
Walter said he would dig on Sundays.