You are an officer, then, in an army. At least, you were?
I would appreciate that, thank you. Most of the books mentioned here are well after my time, written decades or centuries after I was born. I have a thought to see if the library includes Udolpho, which I remember enjoying. It was rather more thrilling than anything Miss Austen wrote, however, with dark, mysterious men, stormy castles, and much despair.