Summary

Snow

February 11 1910

This chapter leaps backward in time to just after Ursula’s birth. The doctor is wakened in the middle of the night by Mrs. Glover who tells the doctor that he’s needed at a farm.

Armistice

November 12 1918

Ursula is awakened by noises downstairs in the kitchen. It is the evening of the Victory celebration in London and Bridget and Clarence have returned. Ursula starts to waken Pamela to tell her that they have come back, but all of a sudden she feels a sense of foreboding, as if something bad were about to happen. She decides against waking her sister, and instead pulls the cover over her head to hide from what is about to come.

Bridget becomes very ill and Sylvie tells Mrs. Glover to keep the children home and to send for Dr. Fellowes. Mrs. Glover just...