Little Manfred by Michael Morpurgo

Author:Michael Morpurgo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Part Three

ALEX, I COULD tell, was still trying to work it out. “So was that our mum, Charley?” he whispered to me. But Alex could never whisper softly.

Walter answered him for me. “I think so. I am very much hoping so. Maybe you understand now why I am so happy to have met you like this, and all by chance, by accident. It is as if it was meant to be.”

But there was something that was still bothering me. “I still don’t understand why your friend, Manfred, has the same name as our dog,” I said.

“Ah yes, Little Manfred,” Walter went on. “Do not worry, I have not forgotten Little Manfred. He is not a dog I could ever forget, I promise you. I will tell you about him soon enough. But let me tell you first about Mr and Mrs Williams – this is your grandmother and your grandfather, I think. As I told you, it was their farmhouse we were staying in, Manfred and I.

“To start with, I must say, they were just polite, but not at all friendly. I do not think they wanted us there at all. They did not like having to lodge us in the house – we were Germans after all. The war was over, but we were still the enemy. And little Grace, she would not even be polite. She did not speak to us for weeks; sometimes she used to stick her tongue out at us, I remember. But Manfred, he managed in the end to make friends with her. He talked to her a lot about Inga, showed Grace her photograph. He built her a tree house in the garden, where she could sit and read. She loved to read books.”

“She still does,” Alex said. “Mum’s always reading. We watch telly, she reads books. I don’t like books. They’ve got spellings in them.” I shushed Alex, and Walter went on.

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