Teacher MARY ROSS to her fiancé Ben Hooper:

I must marry you quickly, cos, oh darling just think if you were killed and I hadn’t. That’s pure selfishness – I mean it’s not a case of trying to make you happy before you possibly die – that sounds noble but it was me I was thinking of, cos darling I don’t think it will help you in any way being married will it?

But I don’t really think it will harm you either. /and then darling if you were badly hurt I know they wouldn’t let me marry you but if we were already, they couldn’t do much about it could they?

All very morbid darling but always there in the back of my mind – everyone else’s too I believe.”