Blackout
“Eileen had to hold Theodore on her lap and sit across from Alf and Binnie. “You two behave,” she told them.
“We will,” Alf promised and promptly began tugging on the sleeve of the stout man who had the window seat. “I got to sit by the window so I can look for planes,” he said, but the man went on reading his newspaper, which read, “German ‘Blitz’ Tests London’s Resolve.”
“I’m an official planespotter,” Alf said, and when the man still refused to move, Binnie bent toward Alf and whispered loudly, “Don’t talk to ’im. I’ll wager ’e’s a fifth columnist.”
The soldiers looked up.
“What’s a fifth columnist?” Theodore asked.
“Here,” Eileen said, taking a packet from the basket the vicar had given them and handing it across to Alf and Binnie. “Have a biscuit.”
“A fifth columnist’s a traitor,”
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