SPOILERS!!!
Oh no! I really hoped that Beattie would not cheat in the end, but it seems that she didn't stop to think too much. So she starts seeing Louis and being intimate with him without having many misgivings. I can't understand how she doesn't even hesitate to go to Louis, and a long marriage to Andrew doesn't appear to be important to her. Now Louis has gone to the front, but he is going to write to her. I have always liked Beattie, but I don't like this new side of her.
Diana is not the brightest bulb in the box. I was right about Rupert and Erskine. They are together romantically, and when Rupert gets upset when Erskine was drafted, he tells her that he and Erskine are in love, thinking that Diana knew through her aunt Laura, just because he thinks Laura and Louisa are also an item. Diana doesn't understand, and it is then that Rupert realises that he has talked out of turn, and there is a risk that she won't marry him, and his plan to have a wife to conceal his real life will be thwarted. So he cries, saying that he was talking nonsense, and Diana believes him. I can't understand how she hasn't realised what is happening when he blurted out the whole truth. The wedding takes place, and everybody is happy, including Diana. Yet, after lying with Rupert for the first time on their wedding night, Diana feels it has been horrible.
Laura now has new plans. At Diana's wedding she meets a cousin of Rupert's, Annie, who tells her that she has turned a car into an ambulance, and she plans to go to France with two other girl friends because there is an urgent need for transport to carry the injured. Laura accepts to join their project, but she wants Louisa to go with them, and Annie agrees. Yet, when she suggests the idea to Louisa, she refuses. Her brother, Jim, who was in the navy, died when his ship sank after it hit a mine. His death devastated both Louisa and her aunt, and now she tells Laura that she can't leave her aunt. She is quite hostile and she shows her disapproval to Laura.
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