What Child Is This

by Rhys Bowen

“Just because everyone’s doing it doesn’t make it right. Wrong’s wrong, even in a ruddy war.”

Old man Morris said it had to go to a family with more coupons, and it’s just you and me, isn’t it?”

We just have to make the best of things and be happy with what we’ve got.”

“It’s hard to imagine there is a God at the moment, isn’t it?” he said. “If I was watching this from up in heaven, I’d want to step in and put a stop to it.”

Like most front parlours, the room was only used for guests, on special occasions.