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My pay as a marine would continue, and I re- ported to no one. I decided quickly to try it for a month, or longer.

As it turned out, it was not a month but almost three years.

Well, Mrs. Swenson helped me a great deal. She told me what to buy and what sizes to ask for. I went to a store myself and picked out a dress and also a nicely-skirted suit. I bought cosmetics in- cluding a very pretty compact with powder and lip stick. And shoes and a hat or two. (I was lucky to have plenty of money.) Then she took me to the hair- dresser and I was given a cut boyish bob and a curl. Then make-up. Then fittings for my new clothes. She suggested that my waist ought to be smaller - to 22 inches to give me curves and hips. She made the skirts tight so that I had to walk femininely. In short, she made ME and when I left her I was a new- born "Bertha" and I walked about the city with happy confidence in my new role.

A word about sizes. English men in general are shorter than American men, and English women are taller and larger. A six-foot girl is not at all unusual. Both sexes seem to be about the same height. Any person wearing skirts and curves and make-up will be accepted as a woman, anywhere. It is much easier than in America. It is not at all necessary to try to have feminine gestures and mannerisms. They come with the clothes. In fact, any person wearing spike heels and tight skirts will be accepted as a person who wears spike heels and tight skirts a woman. is as simple as that.

So I went to work at Harrod's. The job that was given to me at first was not especially exciting- wrapping up parcels all day long but the store was a pleasant place to work, with employees who were always very nice people. One large room was set up as the "Employee's Club", where every evening the