Chapters 10-13 Summary

In Chapter 10, the relationship between Daisy and Edmond develops into a full-blown affair. She insists it has nothing to do with the war, except that the war's disruption of convention is what allows underage cousins to have an affair in the first place. Aunt Penn has not returned for weeks now. Daisy and Edmond try to hide the intensity of their feelings from the others, although Osbert is too preoccupied with the growing war to notice them, anyway. Daisy doesn't feel she is corrupting Edmond, who is a year younger than she, because she sees him as utterly incorruptible. In Chapter 11, the war has been going on for five weeks, and reports of bombings occur almost daily. The airports are closed, and electricity and communications are intermittent. In the village, the lines are long for food, and rumors break out of...