And I know from Forest that father called him up when it was
quite dark, between three and four in the morning--Mrs. Forest
thought the Germans had come when she heard the knocking--and
asked him to come with him and undo the gates. Forest told me
that _he_ would have had nothing whatever to do with closing
them, nor with anything 'agin the Government! He's a staunch
old soul, is Forest. So when father told him what he wanted, he
didn't know what to make of it. However, they both groped their
way through the fog, which was thick on the other side of the
park, and set to at the gates. Forest says it was an awful
business to get everything cleared away. Father and Gregson had
made an uncommonly good job of it. If Gregson had put in work
like that on his own hedges and gates, Forest says he mightn't
have been kicked out! It took them ages getting the barbed
wire cleared away, because they hadn't any proper nippers.
Father took off his coat, and worked like a navvy, and Forest
hoisted him up to get at the wire along the wall.
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