“It was thrilling,” she wrote, although, she added, “It made me feel very useless. There can never be a true measure of my love for England—because I am a woman & I feel passionately that I would like to pilot a plane—or risk everything for something which I believe in so entirely & love so very deeply.” Instead, she wrote, “I must lick down envelopes & work in an office & live a comfortable—happy life.”
