Dot turned to Hazel. “How did the story end up in America?” “Do you remember a woman named Maria? Someone who helped your mum and other mums during the war? A woman who helped to babysit and teach?” “There were a few American volunteers, yes, but I don’t remember one named Maria.” “Well it seems that there was one, and you told her the story and used it to calm yourself, to settle yourself. That woman, Maria, took the story back to America and told her sister, Linda, about it to help calm her little girl, Peggy, who had also lost her father in the war.”
