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...After wards the Cavendishes and the Kennedys kept their counsel. But the day before the wedding Kathleen's mother, ill in a Boston hospital, sent out word that she was "too sick to discuss the marriage." If Lord Hartington succeeds to the title, becomes the 11th Duke of Devon shire, his Duchess will find herself the Mistress of the Royal Robes, first lady In waiting to the Queen. The Queen may well be Princess Elizabeth...
...West Country. Westward still, where Brixham's whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...
...Wash down past Great Yarmouth, the herring port, past Harwich, home of Britain's famed gunnery school, to the misty mouth of the Thames, where Sheerness and Shoeburyness stand guard, to the North Foreland around by Dover and Beachy Head to Southampton and on to the Devon towns and Land's End in Cornwall, only those with identity cards might...
...cries Devon when he tells her, "do you love me?" He does, right away. But it's no use. Tim leaves the cosmetic traffic for his laboratory, and Devon to a refugee satyr named Kurt who suffers from moral arthritis. Just as love is about to petrify into marriage, Devon discovers that Kurt is unfaithful...
...killed in the war. Devon, saddened by life and threatened by hag-lines, prepares to market her latest perfume, Midnight Tears...