The response she remembered him giving was 'my old man would kill me.'
Shortly after the war ended, the entertainment unit was disbanded, and John's regiment was deployed overseas to #India.
For the next year or so Olive heard nothing from John.
Then, one day, with no advance contact at all, John was suddenly there on her literal doorstep, back from deployment.
This is the stage when it's likely the relationship became physical, not to put too fine a point on it. 13/?