Julie weighed her options and thought it would cause no harm to tell Vivian the truth.

Julie had no choice but to tell her the “adapted truth".

“The day before we came to Broome, your grandfather had a peculiar dream. He dreamt he had two real granddaughters. He thought his dream was real, so he insisted on making Maria have a maternity test with me."

“What? How could Grandpa take a silly dream so seriously? Isn't he being..."

Vivian stopped short of saying “stupid”. She held her tongue for her own good.