Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: News

Chapter Two: Telling Henry

Chapter Three: Two Tea Parties

Chapter Four: “Bon Voyage!”

Chapter Five: “Will You Miss Me?”

Chapter Six: The Liberté

Chapter Seven: In London

Chapter Eight: St. Vincent’s School

Chapter Nine: One Good Thing

Chapter Ten: Writing to Henry

Chapter Eleven: Another Good Thing

Chapter Twelve: The Dolls

Chapter Thirteen: Something Big

Chapter Fourteen: Sibton Park

Chapter Fifteen: Talking to a Real Horse

Chapter Sixteen: Manners and Matron

Chapter Seventeen: Lessons

Chapter Eighteen: Mo, Brioney, and Tuppence

Chapter Nineteen: Bubby and Bubbité

Chapter Twenty: Sunday

Chapter Twenty-one: My First Riding Lesson

Chapter Twenty-two: May 16th

Chapter Twenty-three: “That Was My Father’s Legion”

Chapter Twenty-four: After Lights Out

Chapter Twenty-five: “Going Home Tomorrow!”

Chapter Twenty-six: At the Vicarage

Chapter Twenty-seven: Back at Sibton

Chapter Twenty-eight: Trying

Chapter Twenty-nine: Little Women

Chapter Thirty: Guy Fawkes

Chapter Thirty-one: Food for a Feast

Chapter Thirty-two: The Midnight Feast

Chapter Thirty-three: Drawing In

Chapter Thirty-four: Marza, a Great Lady

Chapter Thirty-five: Riding on the Downs

Chapter Thirty-six: “God Save the Queen!”

Chapter Thirty-seven: Going Home

Epilogue

To anyone who has read this book: