Secrets of a Charmed Life

As Isabel Crofton, Emmy starts working with the Women’s Volunteer Service (WVS). All the while, she lives in Primrose Bridal and continues to avoid air raids by covering herself in wedding gowns under the sewing machine. She quickly becomes dedicated to helping children of war by relocating or reuniting them with their families. Over time, she starts to forget her old dream of creating wedding gowns and becomes invested in her new cause: finding Julia and helping children orphaned by the war. Near the end of the month, she goes to an IIP and learns that Mrs. Crofton had indeed died when a bomb hit her flat.

She frequents the Savoy, where, one day in October, she meets American journalist Jonah “Mac” MacFarland. Emmy notices that Mac is interested in her, and she becomes attracted to him as well. She starts to welcome his company and tells him about her life, saying that her mother was killed in the Blitz and her father died years ago. Later in the month, Mac notices something is bothering her. She eventually admits that she is looking for Julia Downtree, whom she tells him is her half-sister through her father. She worries about her, and he gives his sympathy.