Nostalgistudio

(39) Chapter 2 cont.

Before the departure for France, disaster strikes Lionel’s family.

A melancholy lovemaking scene turns strange with one lover in the throes of plague.

A tragic installment with major editorial departures.

Lionel has company when he pays another visit to the royal tomb.

Their departure delayed, England’s last emigrants witness unusual sights from the cliffs at Dover.

Trouble in Paris.

At the Hôtel Ritz, an attempted rescue goes very wrong.

Complications beset the plan to leave France ahead of plague season; fatalities ensue.

…the author, with her husband and sister, on foot, through part of France and Switzerland…

With the emigrants’ goal in sight, very few are left to see it.