‘He is twelve years old, Sarah. It’s time he went to work. In England, he would have been working at least two years already.’
Sarah wanted to scream in her husband’s face that they weren’t in England anymore and things that applied there, didn’t here. But she knew her husband was right, especially about James Jr. In the two years they had lived in New Norfolk he had not settled well. He hadn’t caused any trouble since stealing the money, but he was unkind to the Cullen girls and cruel to his brothers, especially John. Mr William McCormack was willing to take him on, so he should go to Hobart Town.
James Jr packed his things in the same bag he had brought from England two years earlier. Hiding beneath the vulnerable child exterior was an angry boy who was looking forward to getting away
