The Evacuee part 2
David, a 15 year old evacuee, was preparing to leave home for the safely of a village in the country side. As sleep started to overtake him, he idly wondered what the people were like in his new home. He wondered what Mrs. Ellis was like? As David was thinking this, Mary Ellis was also lying in bed, equally nervous about the following day. She had been quick to volunteer to take in an evacuee, but as the day approached she was wondering whether she had done the right thing. She had written to her husband Jack, who was serving in North Africa, and he had expressed his pride at her “doing her bit” as he put it. Her daughters, however, had not been so sure. “But what if it’s a boy?” Katie had exclaimed …