To Ease Your Troubled Mind: Ch3

Finally we get to see the characters in a contented middle-age... which means of course that they have to negotiate the rapids of the First World War first :-(

I think this Raoul is still very much in love with Christine, to be honest. (And he's Victorian enough in his outlook to appreciate a bit of extra padding, though she assumes that's just flattery!) But she doesn't want him to say it, so he isn't going to push matters any further.

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( Ch3: So Glad You're Here )