Though he’d told the baroness he held no false hopes, writing to her had made him hopeful. To ask for news meant there might be some to give. Word of Maurice’s death would not be news. Reason told him Maurice must be dead. So the only real news must be good news. He thought about others he might write to, like Morgan. But suppose Morgan hadn’t returned from the war. Then wouldn’t it pain his mother to receive a letter addressed to him? He even thought of writing to Mrs. Hall, whom he’d never met and who likely had never heard his name. He would say he’d worked for her son before the war and
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