Chapter 112

“Do you think that you would have been happier if you had been with your own mother?”

“I don’t know. I thought about it last night and then I realised that I could never understand what she went through in the first place. The horror, the getting away from home and then staying with someone else, taking help from strangers and then giving them such a precious priceless gift it is not something that a person of faint heart could do. They never told me how brave she was, but now that I look at you I know that she must have been awfully brave. To begin life in a new country with a new profession and everything out there is not an easy task at all.”

“She never spoke about you to us. The first time that she told about you was when she was on her deathbed and I never realised why.”

“Now you do?”

“After meeting with you and spending time with you, getting to know you I can see how much you have her in you. You don’t realise that. But I do. You have her eyes. And every single time that I see