As usual Father drove into town for the bread, mail and the occasional order they had rung through using the phone at the siding. Maggie normally went with her father – her mother loved going into town but had been sending Maggie because she didn’t want her daughter alone on the farm with the Italians. But this week Phyllis accompanied her husband, as it was Maggie’s birthday on Saturday and her mother had to get her present. For Maggie, being left on the farm alone with Rocco, Giulio and Charlie was a gift in itself. Mother had given her a long list of chores to do, no doubt to keep her too busy to visit the men. But Maggie had worked hard and fast to get most of them done in record time. Checking her hair in the small mirror her mother kept in her room, Maggie pinched her cheeks and put on a little lipstick. On her way out from the cottage she saw Giulio carrying some sticks towards the copper by the wash house. ‘What are you doing, Giulio?’ Maggie looked into the copper to find water heating up, and beside it sat a pile of his maroon work clothes.
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