More People Taking Interest

Her story piqued the interest of the rest of the passengers, and they all leaned a little closer to her to hear it. She explained about her simple background, how her father died during the war and how she had to look after her ill mother and mentally unstable brother.

This really captured the passengers, who couldn’t help but focus their attention on her. But what really captured then was the story about how she had lost the boy in the picture. People were pretty judgemental when they heard she put him in an orphanage, but changed their minds as the story developed.