sentences:  Pascoe had been a fighter pilot during The Great War and had married an up-and-coming actress.At war's end they had become separated and his wife accepted a role in Hollywood, and filed for divorce from there with sole custody of their daughter.A few years later, Pascoe opens a small flying school and is embroiled in an adulterous affair with a local upper-class woman, Brenda Marshall, whose husband is in a mental asylum.