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“A nice-size family”

She looked at hier family than that? That she also had three brothers?’

Yes She should

“We’re a big family,” she said “I also have three brothers Half-brothers Our father’s first wife died and he married our mother”

“And everybody got along?”

“Yes “ She s’s”

He laughed “Did your father take your brothers to France, too?”

“Well, there’s an age gap Our brothers were away at school We were

still home”

“Ah Must have been fun, a holiday like that”

She kneas trying to reconcile what he thought, that she’d grown up poor, with a family that could afford a holiday in Europe

“It wasn’t actually a holiday As I told Mrs Barnett, my father was—is—in the army We visited him e could”

“It irls and three boys with hione”

“Actually, she died ere little”

Marco let go of her hand, put his arm around her shoulders and drew her to his side “And who took care of you?”