In ‘Many
Happy Returns’ Number 6 arrives in The Village at the end of a parachute,
having been ejected from a jet aircraft. A thought occurred to me some time
ago, a fanciful one no doubt, but I like to think that’s the way Curtis arrived
in the Village. But no doubt he arrived by helicopter from the Landing stage,
just as anyone does. I wonder just how delighted Curtis was at having been
seconded to The Village? Remembering the Colonel in ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My
Darling,’ he didn’t seem over delighted to find himself there. Perhaps he’d
been there before and had bad memories of the place. Certainly he had been sent
by the highest authority, he should have been proud, he was certainly
gratified. So perhaps Curtis wasn’t all that happy about it either, that much
they may have had in common. Certainly they had one thing in common, they both
came to a bad end in The Village!
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