Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - BOOCarz

I thought about it. I wasn’t really sure where to start.
“Just … what happened?”
“All right then, we’ll skip all the nice bits and go right
to the end. It’s simple, really. He left. He said he loved
me and promised to come back one day. But he
never did.”
“But he had to go, didn’t he? To fight?”
“Had to? I don’t know. He said he wouldn’t be able
to live with himself if he sat out the war while his
people were being hunted and killed. Said it was his
duty. I suppose duty meant more to him than I did.
Anyhow, I waited. I waited and worried through that
whole bloody war, thinking every letter that came was
a death notice. Then, when the war was finally over,
he said he couldn’t possibly come back. Said he’d go
stark raving. Said he’d learned how to defend himself
in the army and he damn well didn’t need a nanny like
the Bird to look after him anymore. He was going to
America to make a home for us, and then he’d send
for me. So I waited more. I waited so long that if I’d
actually gone to be with him I would’ve been forty
years old. By then he’d taken up with some
commoner. And that, as they say, was that.”
“I’m sorry. I had no idea.”
“It’s an old story. I don’t drag it out much anymore.”
“You blame him for being stuck here,” I said.
She gave me a sharp look. “Who says I’m stuck?”
Then she sighed. “No, I don’t blame him. Just miss
him is all.”
“Still?”
“Every day.”
She finished sorting the letters. “There you have it,”
she said, clapping the lid on them. “The entire history
of my love life in a dusty box in the closet.” She drew a
deep breath and then shut her eyes and pinched the
bridge of her nose. For a moment I could almost see
the old woman hiding behind her smooth features. My