Summary

In Chapter 7, when an evacuation order had come out a year earlier, Julia and Emmy’s mother had refused to send them away. Within a month, there were no air raids and the children returned home. Emmy argued with her mother begging her not to make her go away, but her mother was adamant. She insisted that Emmy go because she wanted her to look after Julia. On Emmy’s last day of work at the shop, Thea seemed irritated she was needed to watch Julia that day. She was packing supplies into the Anderson shelter she’d built in her backyard because her cats couldn’t stay in the public bomb shelter. When Emmy indicated she hoped they’d be back soon, Thea asked Emmy if she knew that the Germans had occupied France, meaning they could get more easily...