War Emergency Hospital—September 1940 Summary

Michael tells Daphne the Commander and Jonathan didn't die at Dunkirk because he was with them as Dover. She tells him that the Commander and Jonathan made a second run to pick up soldiers after they dropped the first load off at Dover. This is when they died. Daphne says they were real heroes—that they saved hundreds of soldiers.

When Michael asks if anyone has been to town asking for him, Daphne says not that she knows. The hospital ends visiting hours, but Daphne promises to write and visit Michael. She does, writing that she talked with her father to verify that nobody had been by the pub asking for Michael. Michael decides that he has to get out of the hospital to try to get to one of the other historians.

Michael...