There's so much to do, and we are to upset to cope. Thank goodness Aunt Leonora's her. Uncle Cecil's coming down at the weekend to help with the arrangements.
My young brother and sister are being looked after so tenderly by Miss Rowan,their governers. May says she will embroider a new handkerchief for Mimi, because all hers are being used up. Freddie says he will look after us until Archie comes home.
Archie! My poor brother. He spent New Year with school friend's family in the West Country, where the dreadful news was broken to him. He's on his way home today. He's due to leave school altougether very soon. Prehaps he won't return there. Prehaps he'll stay her and be the man of house and look after everything.
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Road To War
RandomIt's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe.When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action she refuses to sit safely in England,and determines to do something to help win the war.Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields...
