Rule Britannia
“Mad insisted that everyone should be present, from Dottie to Ben. “I don’t believe,” she said to Emma, “in children being told to run away and play when serious things are going on all round them. They should take part in decisions. Even if their opinions are immature, they very often see things clearer than we do.” So briefly, while they gathered around her, some on the window seat, the younger boys on the floor, Dottie on the inevitable upright chair, Mad explained what had happened. Her task... was made all the easier because they had heard the news over the kitchen radio, and the very fact that it was about Poldrea, their own territory, and they themselves had witnessed the scenes described, made solidarity firm among Andy, Sam and Colin. They were outraged. So was Dottie, who had instantly switched sides once she knew Terry might be involved. Dottie, when she was baited by Terry, as she frequently was, would allude to him as “that boy”; but if he was in any sort of trouble that did not concern her, then her first nursling became “my boy.”MoreLess
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