The soldier's mother took the card again and she pushed Alice away, but it was not an unkind push, and she went in and shut the door; and as Alice and Oswald went down the road Oswald looked back, and one of the windows of the cottage had a white blind.

Afterwards the other windows had too.

There were no blinds really to the cottage.

It was aprons and things she had pinned up.
Alice cried most of the morning, and so did the other girls.

We wanted to do something for the soldier's mother, but you can do nothing when people's sons are shot.