“Does his face look familiar to you, Violet? I cannot help thinking I know this child.” She looks up at him with a frown.
“I don’t know, the eye patch makes it difficult to say. Poor thing, wonder what happened to his eye.” She starts to unbutton his wet shirt and then she suddenly utters a big gasp. She jumps up and looks into Rollo’s eyes. “You need to turn around, or better still leave the room.” She says with wide eyes.
“Why, what did I do?” He looks at her with confusion.
“No silly, you didn’t do anything, this is not a boy… it is a girl” she whispers, her voice so soft it is barely heard.
“Oh….OH!” He turns around and leaves the room. After washing the girl and dressing her, she calls Rollo back into the room.
“Okay, she is all cleaned up now. The wound was not too bad, I th
