SPOILERS!!!
Diana and Charles keep meeting, and Charles feels that Diana is the woman she loves. Diana's motivations are not so wholesome as she feels it is her duty to marry well, and Charles is a brilliant match. Once when her family invites him to take part in tennis matches, he brings along his brother Rupert and some other friends. Rupert gets her alone and is nasty to her, telling her that she is a fortune hunter and should leave Charles alone because he is certain she will break her heart. Diana is outraged but she has no intention to give up on her idea to be with Charles, but not once does she mention love between them.
After much upheaval in Europe, Britain finally declares war on Germany. Charles, who is in the Territorials, is summoned and has to go away. Everybody else is in an excited mood and think that the war will end before Christmas. Edward is the only one who feels differently because one of his clients has told him that Kitchener thinks that the war will last three or four years, but they aren't saying because optimism helps to keep people's morale.
David, the Hunters' eldest, comes back early from his holiday in Scotland with his friend Oliphant, and he announces that he has enlisted to his mother's consternation. Beattie says that she won't allow it and he needs to go back and unlist it. David tries to reason with her, but she won't hear anything and moves from the family table, saying that she won't change her opinion about it.
This story is getting more and more interesting, and I am learning so many details about the start of the Great War, which I only knew some basic details about.
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