Warwickshire—August 1940 Summary

It's been four months and the drop still hasn't opened for Eileen. A retrieval team has not come for her either. they have been busy packing the manor and finding new homes for the children. Some of the children are going back to their parents. the only ones they haven't found a new home for is the Hodbins.

Eileen decides she has to try to find Polly on Oxford Street in London, so she's going there she wants to try to use Polly's drop to get home. Eileen goes to the drop site the night before she is to leave on the train with the Hodbins and Theodore—to return them to their parents when they arrive in London. It doesn't open.

The next morning, she's waiting at the train station with the three children. The train is...