Summary

Chapter 26: Clara—Manhattan, September 1911

Ethan and Clara rode a cab to get to the restaurant where Clara's father would meet her in Greenwich Village. Ethan said he would return to meet her in the lobby at two. Clara's father was happy but surprised to see her, as her mother and sister believed that she would not come on the mainland to meet them. Her father argued that it was time for her to move on to a new position because Ellis Island was trapping her there. He said that she sounded changed in her letters to them since the fire. Clara defended her decisions, but at the end of their lunch her father told her of a nursing position for a professor and his ailing wife. The nurse would accompany them to Scotland. Clara promised that she would think about...