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The thought that the seven girl agents, and a hundred others, might simply have been decoys handed over to certain death in order to mask other intelligence activities was an unpalatable one for many Britons. Gilbert had advised Author Fuller not to "put your nose into this stinking business" because "spying is not a business for angels." Most Britons preferred to remember the words spoken in St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge in 1948 when a memorial to the memory of war heroines was unveiled: ". . . For God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace, hath he tried them."
*A phrase of John Donne's, also used as a title by John (Inside Russia Today) Gunther for the 1949 account of the illness and death of his 17-year-old son from cancer.