“She did, however, find Platform 12 at Waterloo Station and stood there with the morning throng while Simon argued with someone over their luggage. Various valets and other servants stood back and watched with a mixture of awe and confusion as he saw to their trunks’ disposition himself. Whenever he felt out of control, he did the only natural thing and tried to control everything down to the smallest detail. There was type A and then there was type Simon. Leaving him to it, she wandered over ...to the newspaper stand to see if there were any magazines that might help pass the time as they took the boat train down to Southampton. She picked up a copy of Punch and the latest issue of The Strand with a new story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The big red board showed their departure time as 9:45, and the enormous four-sided clock dangling from the ceiling gave them a half hour to go yet. So, she wandered around the large central kiosk looking at the headlines and trying to forget she’d be part of one soon enough.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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