Philip Youngman Carter

MA and her future husband, Pip Carter , got engaged: he is a worthy young man and not at all likely to beat me was her flippant comment to a friend.

MA married Pip Carter at St Giles-in-the-Fields church in London.

MA 's husband joined the Royal Army Service Corps and left home: he was posted to North Africa.

Cryptic remarks in MA 's diary suggest that she learned of her husband 's affair with another woman, and that despite the shock she found the knowledge a relief compared with her earlier suspicion.