"Deals with the effect of a visit to a war memorial on the mother of a fallen soldier and is set around the Mothers' Memorial in Toowoomba, a stiking monument to the local men who fell in the First World War..". (Christopher Lee in Civic Virtue and the Monumental Pleasures of Poetic Work : Margaret Curran and Toowoomba's Ladies' Literary Society, Coppertales no.7, 2001, p.60)