Home in Belize
He hates being parted from his mother and knows what to say and do to get his way. “If I were the mummy and you were the baby,” he says, “I’d let you stay home.” Maggy inevitably capitulates. She adores children and would have liked to have eleven, like her mother. But the times are too hard for that. ‘There’s no question of a sixth child,” she says. “The house is so small, there’s not even room for a doll.”