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 to Fabrice. 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.