‘Let me think about it, my love. You need to as well. If we agree to take the boy in and it doesn’t work out, what on earth do we do then? Does he even speak English?’
‘Reggie! You haven’t even talked to him! Otherwise you’d know he does. He’s been going to the estate school at BL. He speaks as well or even better than the children I teach. He does appear to be a bright boy.’ She leaned forward and kissed him softly on the lips. ‘I think you should spend some time with him, Reggie. Just the two of you. See what you think. Unless you are one hundred percent sure, I won’t put pressure on you. It’s too important for all of us.’
‘Frances does seem to have taken to him.’
‘Utterly besotted.’
‘And after what the doctors said when you had Frances… We accepted it, didn’t we, old girl? That she
