She tried to be pleased for him and said all the right words and yet she was fooling no one. Peggy knew a little of what she was going through because she confessed to Sarah that she had felt the same when Sam was declared fit to go back. The younger children were openly upset for they had got used to having their father around. ‘I haven’t got to go back till the seventeenth and that’s a few days away yet,’ Bill told them. They were still despondent and in the end, Bill with a glance across the table to Marion, said, ‘How about if tomorrow is fine we all take off to Sutton Park for the day?’ ‘Where’s Sutton Park?’ Tony asked. ‘A really big place a bit of a distance from here,’ Bill said. ‘I’ve not been there very often myself, to tell you the truth.’ ‘I remember it,’ Sarah said. ‘You and Mom took me and Richard before Tony was born. It’s got big lakes in it, and it’s so huge that rich people used to drive round it in their cars. You’ll have to go on the train, or at least that’s how we went.’ The twins were speechless with excitement and their eyes danced as Tony cried, ‘A train?
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