Part 3, Chapter 1 Summary

When Portia returns to London it is Thursday and Anna and Thomas aren't due back to return until Friday afternoon. Matchett notes that there's definitely something different about her, for one, she's more outspoken. Portia thinks this is interesting and wonders if she really has changed.

Matchett says the change has been good for her. She says that Portia was always eerily quiet before. She also says that she has more color in her cheeks and that Eddie noticed it as well.

Portia starts at the mention of Eddie's name. She asks Matchett what she means and she says that Eddie stopped by the day before looking for Anna and then asking for Portia. While he was there he said that he had gone to the shore to visit Portia and that Matchett would be happy to know that the trip...