Captain VonTrapp watched as Maria bonded with her children. Gretle seemed to know her. She hugged Maria's neck. Gretle only hugs a neck if she like someone.
Gretle was the sensitive one out of the seven. She was given to fuss any time someone raised their tone to her. Getting mad was out of the question when it came to Gretle because it would destroy her like a battleship would destroy a civilian but that was as far he could contend. There was something definitely familiar about that woman. Just then she came out after putting the kids to bed.
"G-captain," she said, "May I speak with you for a moment?"
"I think that can be arranged," he said.
"Privately," she contended.
He led her out to the garden.
"What is this about," he asked her.
"Well... I... I don't know exactly how to say this but I think we may be family"
He just looked at her. He wasn't surprised... exactly just curious.
"I had an accident about 18 months ago. My sister was driving a car... we crashed. I lost all my-"
"18 months ago," he said, "My wife disappeared after an accident 18 months ago."
"I had no ID," Maria said.
"My wife had a habit of leaving her ID at home," he said, "It was the one thing I would ever chide her for. I worried because if..."
He paused for a moment.
"No- no it can be can it?"
She pulled out the list she had made.
"Names I remembered," she said, "I never knew who they were or why the were but for some reason they always meant something to me. Now I know why"