In some ways Ann might be among the less self-sacrificial of them! Ginty and Lawrie seem to a large extent to have escaped the indoctrination into duty.
Yes, if she's waiting for her father to retire, she's got a good few years still to go--Geoff is said to be 48 in RMF, isn't he--and wouldn't his earliest opportunity to retire be 55 (I'm going here on my own family background, RAF not RN, but probably similar?) I mean, it's not a life-sentence, but it's quite a stretch when you're 17. I can't see Giles chucking the Service, though I entertain fantasies of his dismissal if the events of RAH ever come to light. I think Forest actually does her decision really well: she doesn't quite perceive the level of self-denial involved, partly because of the pathological coping mechanism, but also because of her youth: it's a moment where we see Rowan as youthfully impractical (how bad can it be? kind of thing); important because she so often seems mature beyond her years.
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Yes, if she's waiting for her father to retire, she's got a good few years still to go--Geoff is said to be 48 in RMF, isn't he--and wouldn't his earliest opportunity to retire be 55 (I'm going here on my own family background, RAF not RN, but probably similar?) I mean, it's not a life-sentence, but it's quite a stretch when you're 17. I can't see Giles chucking the Service, though I entertain fantasies of his dismissal if the events of RAH ever come to light. I think Forest actually does her decision really well: she doesn't quite perceive the level of self-denial involved, partly because of the pathological coping mechanism, but also because of her youth: it's a moment where we see Rowan as youthfully impractical (how bad can it be? kind of thing); important because she so often seems mature beyond her years.