“I expect not.” Alice replied. “She says that she can’t believe you wore a dress for ‘the day’… if she’d written ‘I can’t believe you’re wearing dresses now’ then it’d be obvious she knows, but I’m quite certain she thinks it was just for May Day.”
“But she did send me a paper doll book for my birthday.” Billy reminded Alice. “…and boy’s don’t play with paper dolls.” he added, thinking ‘apart from me’.
“So… what do you think your mother would do if she knew the truth?” Alice asked.
“I don’t know.” Billy replied. “I’d hope she’d come and take me home but with the Luftwaffe threat, she might not be allowed to.” he added. “I think if she did know she’d at least try to stop it so I can go back to being a boy again.”