Peggy took her revenge for what she deemed a public humiliation by checking all Bette’s papers and quizzing her on her home background, on when she’d met Chad and how she’d managed to get transport to the States. When Bette explained about Barney finding her a billet on a transport ship, she was instantly suspicious. ‘That don’t sound legal to me.’ ‘Nobody queried it when we arrived so I shouldn’t think anyone is going to bother about that now.’ Bette tried to sound unconcerned, but could have kicked herself for this carelessness. She wouldn’t put it past the woman to try to have her thrown out of the country. ‘And why would Barney help?’ ‘I’ve told you, he was a friend.’ Peggy considered her with a shrewd, calculating gaze, lips pressed firmly together. ‘You and he must’ve got mighty cosy around that time.’ More chillingly, on another occasion, Peggy suddenly, and quite casually remarked, ‘They do say that a child most resembles it’s father at the moment of it’s birth.’ Bette’s heart skipped a beat but even as she struggled to find some sort of answer to this weighted comment, Peggy blithely changed the subject and began talking about bottling peaches and stocking up the wood store before winter set in.
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