When Lorna tells Paul that people are not happy about Germans working on local farms and that there are Nazis at the camp he brusquely reminds her that not all Germans are Nazis.

Paul explains to Lorna that his aunt was an English lady who taught him English during his holidays on his uncle's farm. He tells her his name is Paul Vogel and wishes Lorna a good day. After slowly and loudly introducing herself, Lorna is surprised to discover that he speaks English. The next day the German POW arrives back at the farm. Iris seems to feel the German soldier deserved his injuries which greatly upsets Lorna. Lorna tells Iris about the badly disfigured young German soldier who is working on their farm. That Lorna's dislike for her beau is a mask for jealousy.

After school Lorna tries to convince Iris to reconsider her blossoming romance with William Urquhart, who is the son of the parish minister and Aberlady School's head boy but Iris insists that William is clever and 'very moral'. Murray suggests to Lorna that she should consider university but with the war continuing, Lorna feels she cannot leave her father. Lorna races to school to write her exam and can't wait to tell her best friend Iris Robertson. The flesh was puckered into the knotted remnants of an earlobe, and his left eye was stretched out of shape, round elongating to oval.' '.from his left temple to his chin across his cheek and down the left side of his throat, the pale skin had been burned away, leaving raw red scarring, tight and shiny. He is introduced to Lorna who is shocked to see that the left side of his face has been badly burned and scarred. One of the prisoners, a tall skinny young man is dropped off to work on the Anderson farm.

In early February of 1945, a truck bearing German POWs from the Gosford Prisoners of War camp pulls into the farm. With her brothers, John Jo and Sandy away at war, Lorna and her father are helped on the farm by Nellie who came two years ago from the Women's Land Arm. Mack) comes daily to cook, clean and care for the Anderson family. Her mother died when Lorna was very young. Set in Aberlady, East Lothian Scotland Wait For Me is a tender story about forbidden love during the closing days of World War II.Īlmost eighteen-year-old Lorna Anderson lives on Craigielaw farm with her father.

Wait for me caroline leech