Niether safe nor pacifist - the end of the war in Parade's End

Started reading volume 3 of Ford Madox Ford's quartet Parade's End, this one called something like A Man Could Stand Up-- (another great writer who was pathetic at titles). This volume, at least the first section, is far easier than some of the earlier obscure sections, in part because I've got the first 2 volumes in mind now and in part from having seen the excellent British miniseries with the Stoppard teleplay. I truly thought this volume would follow the main character, Tietjens, into the trenches in France (WWI), as the 2nd volume ended with his being dispatched to the front, in part as payback to some obscure insult to a general. And, knowing how FMF jumps freely back and forth in time, that we will somewhere get T's experience of the horrors of trench warfare. But this volume begins, as we quickly learn, on Armistice day - the war is over, London about to break apart in celebration, and we're with the long-beleaguered love, unconsummated, of T's life, Valentine Wannop - she's working as a phys-ed instructor in a suburban girls school. She gets a call from Lady Macmaster, who'd married T's best friend, telling her that T is back in London and is apparently suffering from some kind of shock and disturbance and is living in a flat w/ no furniture. Miss Wannop, though she hasn't heard from T in years, is ready to fling herself on him - although she's also very mindful of the danger to her status; T is still married, though his wife apparently seriously ill. Much of the section is W's discussion with the head of her school, who seems to believe gossip she's heard about W, namely that she had a child (T's?) - not true, but W. determines she's going to quit her job and devote herself to rescuing T., and then she'd like to live on the Mediterranean and back in literature and think (who wouldn't?). All the complexities of the first two volumes are back in place now - T's financial straits, his suffering from abuse at the hands of his unfaithful wife and his exploitative friend Macmaster; W's insecurity about her own social status - though her father was a well-known classics scholar, he left the family with almost nothing and she was forced to work as a "tweeny maid" (horrors!); her brother, a pacifist, has apparently had a safe war job aboard a minesweeper - doesn't sound either safe or pacifist to me, but there ya go - the Brits are strange and this is a strange novel.