Afterwards, a car pulled up. The driver was a friend of Maia's mother, whom Maia did not like. Maia didn't want to go with them, but she didn't protest because if she did she might cry. Ever since she could remember, when Maia got hurt she had to do something mean.

The driver took Maia, her mother, Krzys, and Zbyszek to a sixth-floor apartment in Warsaw. Through the window she could see fires, people running, pile-ups of vehicles. The driver left them locked in the room. A bomb went off and her mother was getting worried. The driver came back and told them he saw their father and they were to take a train, go through Rumania to France, where they were to join their father (husband for the mother). Maia's father was always gone and it made her very sad. She cried about that a lot.

The family arrived in Venice and was waiting for a train. They waited for the train to take them to Paris and her father.

Through the window to a cabin, on the train, Maia watched an old lady with a dog eat grapes. She peeled the grapes and neither her nor her dog ate the peels. Maia wished she could have the peels.

Maia, her mom, and her brothers waited for the truck to come. When by nine it didn't come, Zbyszek went to the nearest house, and found that the families there were gone. All of the houses were empty. The truck had come and taken all of them away.

The next day they left Les Sables-d'Olonne on a train to Bordeaux. Zbyszek seemed so distant suddenly on that train to Bordeaux. He seemed so private and deeply depressed. Maia lost him forever then. They arrived in Bordeaux. Which, to Maia, was a marvelous place. The British bombed here.

Maia's mother called with the news that they were going to Washington. Her father had been appointed air attache at the Polish Embassy there.

One day a letter came from Maia's father. She stayed home from school to read it. The letter talked about him missing her and what was going on. Also it talked about how Maia needs to be nice to her mother.

Next to her sat a tall, dark, and handsome man. They talked and Maia fell in love with him. He was very kind to her and supported almost every choice of hers. When they pulled in the Madrid station, he lowered the window for her. She yelled hello to her family and all they wanted to know was if the hatbox was safe. Maia looked behind her and didn't see the man or the box. At the police station the family found out that the man was a regular theft. Maia dreamed at marrying him and becoming a theft with him.

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