Downstream

London where she was
besieged by autograph
hunters and ‘an excited
woman admirer broke
through the throng at Charing
Cross and kissed her’. Gleitze
announced she was not going
back to being a typist but
would become a professional
long-distance swimmer and
‘take up social-welfare work’.
By now she had signed a
statutory declaration that her
7 October Channel swim was