Summary

In Chapter 39, in her July 19 letter, Julia writes to Emmy that she found the town where they got off the train after leaving London. She didn’t find the house, however, and plans to go alone again the following week. In her July 26 letter, Julia writes she is sick and unable to search that Saturday.

It is in her Aug. 2 letter that Julia writes she found Charlotte’s house but not the brides box. She’d learned from the city librarian that Rose and Charlotte were both dead. Charlotte had died just a few months earlier. She gave her directions to Charlotte’s house, Thistle House, and told her an American and her daughter were living there for the summer. A teenaged girl opened the door. Julia told the girl her story. The girl, who was named Gwen, allowed her into...