How does Maria respond to Bruno's question about living at the new house in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

Maria does not immediately respond to Bruno's question
about where they are going or what it means.  Typical of Boyne's style, Bruno has raised
an important ethical and moral question as a child.  He has posed a question to Maria
which is complex and difficult to answer.  In this, he has placed Maria in a challenging
situation.  It is evident that Maria understands where the family is going, what the
father is doing, and what it means from a moral and ethical point of view.  She
understands the implications of what is happening.  Yet, she chooses to "do her work"
and evades Bruno's question.  It is evident that she knows more because when a Nazi
officer nods uneasily at Bruno, she tells the child to mind his own business and "steer
clear of the men who work in his capacity."  It is here where Maria demonstrates her
fundamental uneasiness, like Bruno's mother, with what the father does and where the
family is going.  In the ever present search to find Germans who were of good moral
character during the rise of Nazism, Boyne offers us Maria and Bruno's mother.  They
might not be moral exemplars, as they silently excuse what they know is wrong, but they
are certainly uncomfortable with where they are and where they are going to
be.