Nancy Mitford

Linda settles down in Alconleigh, where Dorothy,"the Bolter", Fanny's mother has also turned up to seek refuge..with a Spanish boyfriend. Davey and Emily are also there. The Alconleighs are not aware of the break up of Linda's second marriage... or that she has a new lover. Dorothy who has left several husbands, has heard gossip, and teases Linda about her French duke. Linda is not very well, and Fanny worries about her since she was not supposed to have another baby. Fanny is also pregnant and so is Louisa, Linda's older sister. Spring comes and Linda only has one letter from Fabrice which she cannot read. Then, she has her baby, a boy, and dies in giving birth. Fanny has another son and she and Alfred contact Christian and offer to adopt Linda's child. Fabrice is shot during doing resistance work. Fanny and Davey tell the parents that Linda was in love with Fabrice, and had his baby. They accept their new grandson.... but they all miss Linda

Nancy Mitford VI

Linda finds him attractive and realises that her feelings for her 2 husbands were not very strong. He offers her a flat and though she protests that she has to go back home, she accepts it. Davey and Lord Merlin visit her to see if she is all right, and promise not to tell her parents that she is living with a French lover. War breaks out and Linda decides to stay in Paris because Fabrice has a job in Military intelligence and is not at the Front. He tells her if it becomes dangerous he will get her out of France. After several months of happiness with him, she has to go home and goes back to London to her own small house. Dunkirk happens and she is desperately worried. Then one day Fabrice turns up and they spend some time together but he has to return to France. After Dunkirk, Fanny and her children, and Louisa both go to Alconleigh, to live with the Radletts. Alfred is in the army, and Fanny goes up to London to get his equipment. She visits Linda who refuses to go home and rarely even leaves her house as she wants to stay close in case Fabrice calls. Her daily help looks after her but Fanny is worried when Linda tells her she's pregnant again. She asks the daily lady to phone her if anything happens. Linda was advised to have no more children when her first child was born, and shortly after visiting London, Fanny gets a call to say that Linda's house had been bombed. She was all right, and didn't miscarry, but she now agrees to go to Alconleigh.