Nico broke the silence. "I am meeting your brother in France next week," he said. "There, I have relatives who with the Resistance rescued wounded Allied soldiers."
"Ted Treharne?” Nico asked on the telephone.
“Yes. She was already pretty sure that he was her long lost wartime sweetheart. But she was certain when with a magnifying glass, she looked at the ring on his right hand. It is a silver ring, like the rings she and Ted exchanged in 1942. They were sterling silver wartime sweetheart rings, engraved only with their initials locked together in such a way that they were hard to read. At that time, she told me, sweetheart rings were a love-connection worn also by mothers and sons and sisters and brothers. 'In the magnified photo,' she said, 'the ring with our intertwined initials was on the middle finger of his right hand, where once I wore my ring, until I took it off to work on the harvest and left it in my bedroom. where sometimes I stil look for it, even though I know that it is gone forever.'"