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My father was very strict with us, we all had to be in by ten o'clock, even when we were engaged to be married. If we weren't in he went to the door and blew his whistle. Everybody heard his whistle, even if we were a long way off. ‘It's after ten o'clock you know’ – ‘Well I've been …’ ‘It doesn't matter, ten o'clock's your time,’ and that was it. Mother was a little bit sympathetic; she used to say, ‘You should be in as you've promised.’