[Kids like us. Oh, Jilly. He didn't know how alike she meant, but the nature of abuse didn't mean a thing. Kids like us. What a hushed thing it had been, no one ever admitting it or wanting to cause trouble, let alone banding together over it.]

No. If Lieutenant Eccleston had done what he should have, he would have taken it to the captain, who would see Simpson tried for...s-sodomy, it happened, sometimes, but I daresay not as often as it should have. [The two sentences run together to disguise the word he's long refused to use. He's not sure he could have told a court-martial his story, either.]