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Right
up to the time the ship left the docks Sara half expected Dennis to appear to
drag her back to that awful house. "I can't make out why he hasn't come
round," she'd said to her mother. "I don't honestly think my threats
of sending for the police would have scared him."
Even two days out on the ocean when the ship was
surrounded by murky water Sara was still uneasy, and whenever someone tapped
her on the shoulder she jumped.
"Why we on a boat, Mum?" Rosy asked for the hundredth
time as Sara tucked her in her bunk. They were sharing a cabin with a
sour-faced woman and her eleven-year-old daughter.
"We're going to Australia. I've told you that
already, Rosy," Sara explained patiently. "We're going to visit
Auntie Daisy and her family."
"But why? And when we gonna see Gran an' Auntie
Vee an' Lizzie again, eh? An' Phil?"
Sara
pushed the silky dark curls back from Rosy's brow and kissed her. "One
day, love, one day," she lied, stifling a sob. They would never set foot
in England again. That thought sent her spirits to the lowest ebb they'd ever
been.
The scary beginnings of a new journey. Great Six! Looking forward to more.
ReplyDeleteTraveling to a distant new world. Scary. . .but filled with hope for a better life.
ReplyDeleteGood six. Rosy must be young, so the trip becomes even more trying. I'd like to see what they find when the land in Australia.
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