Then he asked: "But is that all?
How did she come to be there ?" "Well," Alex said, "that's just as strange.

Father was in a French cavalry regiment, and got knocked out on the Marne.

They lived in Arras before the war, and you can guess that there wasn't much left of the home.

One much older sister was a widow with a big family; the other was a kid of ten or eleven, so this one went into the business to keep the family going.Fact.The mother used to come and see her, and I got to know her.

She didn't seem to mind: said the doctors looked after them well, and the girl was making good money.