Mrs Marlow is so calm!

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Just re-reading Marlows and the Traitor.  I'd forgotten quite how unlikely a lot of it is.  But one thing just struck me, and that was the general lack of outcry at the disappearance of the children.  When Lawrie finally wakes up in hospital and starts talking to Anquetil about Foley waving his revolver around, that is, presumably, the first time that Mrs Marlow (if not the others) realises that they have been abducted at gunpoint.  (And even if this was already suspected by Anquetil and others, it's now been confirmed 'officially').  You'd think there'd have been a much greater hoo-haa, and that she'd at least have been more wiling to have her husband called home from the exercises given that fact.

And no greater efforts made to find out which child was in the hospital, unconscious, and which had been abducted, when Mrs Marlow couldn't tell them apart because their clothes were the same?  OK, disheveled Lawrie might have been, and perhaps hooked up to drips and whatnot, but seems surprising that her Mum couldn't tell which was which - are they that identical then, just mannerisms and personality distinguishing them, and no physical marks or traits that we ever hear about?