Pegasus: a Novel (2014)
“Marianne said to her father mournfully, three weeks after they had seen them off at the ship, and her father looked at her in surprise.
Germany and all of Europe were still reverberating with the stories of the destruction on Kristallnacht, and the people who had disappeared, all of them Jewish. It had proven to Alex and Paul how wise they had been to urge Nick to leave quickly. They were both relieved to know that he and the boys were safely in Florida now. They had nothing to fear there.
“Already?” Alex answered her. “He must have written to you the moment he arrived.
I had a telegram from his father when they landed in New York, to tell me the horses were all right, but I haven’t heard from him since. How are they?”
“Toby sounds sad. It was the day they got to Florida, and he said everything there is very strange.”
“Well, life in the circus certainly isn’t familiar to any of them, but at least they’re safe.
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