Chapter FourWhen Minerva had the idea of how she could save Tony and the children, she had, after she had considered it, thought it ridiculous.
Yet the idea persisted.
There was no other way that she could prevent them from losing their home.
Looking around the house she had known ever since she had been born, the idea was terrifying.
She thought anything, however outrageous, was better than being homeless and penniless.
Minerva was very imaginative.
She could not help seeing herself walking through the fields, holding Lucy by one hand and David by the other.
They would be sleeping under hedges or in the woods and growing hungrier and hungrier.
‘How can that happen to us?’ she asked herself despairingly.
And yet at the same time, if every penny they possessed passed into the hands
