Извините, на английском.
Sam Vimes sighed whem he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it. Stroking his shininig smoothness, he hurried out into the ward-room and shouted for a marine. Madam now got credit for having acted on this occasion in a spirit of motherly partiality; she came off with flying colors; people liked her as a directress better than ever. Wood? he thought, bevildered; was Wood a cane she was going to use on him? He had a spring of lilac pinned to his robe.
В одном месте у меня случился читинг, но последнее предложение само.