Marguerite writes of starting at the Quaker Friends School that she is attending in Baltimore while living with her Uncle Owen and Aunt Eleanor.  Meanwhile, life is much more tense across the ocean.  The London blitz that began in September 1940 intensifies and other cities are bombed including Coventry, and Liverpool where Maude lives.  She writes to Marguerite of the night she was caught out in the August 28 bombing.