Lost Angel (Chapter 21-30)

More than 5 months had passed since Ellen and Hilda received the telegram. Mabel comes to  check on Hilda when Ellen hears a strange sound, they were under attack again. Everyone heads to the underground station for shelter. Hilda and Ellen return to their flat after the attack, and are surprised when Gertie comes to visit. Gertie offers Hilda and Ellen to move to her friend’s cottage.

Although Hilda and Ellen moved to Hampshire to live in the cottage, yet Hilda kept paying the rent for her flat in Clapham.  Ellen is 14 now and is considering of getting a job in a farm. Mabel and Billy come to stay with Ellen and Hilda because the attack in Clapham got much worse than before.

Billy loved Hampshire since he started to work in the stables; Ellen and her friend Sheila now work together at a farm. When Ellen goes for a walk outside, she got astonished when she met her father Doug, who they thought was dead. Doug and Ellen head to the cottage  and Hilda is surprised. Doug explains what happened with him.

Ellen starts to wonder about the women who had the vision that her father was not dead. Sheila and Ellen sneak out to meet a woman who tells fortune. The woman tells Ellen something about signs, but Ellen and Sheila freak out and leave immediately. Ellen overhears that Mabel wants to go back to London, but everything is settled when Ellen and Mabel swap rooms.

Ellen develops a crush on Billy. Billy goes for a walk with Sheila and her younger brother, while Ellen returns home for dinner. Ellen stays pissed off all along the dinner.

Mabel receives a letter that states that Jack, her husband, was wounded. Mabel and Billy take off to London with Billy’s dismay, because he had to leave the horses. Ellen is happy since Sheila will stay away from Billy this way.

Ellen, Hilda, and Doug celebrated the Victory in Europe day with all the village. Since the war had stopped, Doug wants to go back to London though Hilda wants to stay in Hampshire. Ellen didn’t mind going back to London since she can meet Billy again. Doug, Hilda, and Ellen take off to London.

Hilda, Doug, and Ellen are shocked because of London destruction; finally they arrive to Clapham and head to their flat. It’s the first time for Doug to come to the flat, and Hilda had a lot of housework to get done with. Ellen goes to the upper flat, and chats with Billy. Mabel wants Hilda and her family to join her for dinner.

Ellen didn’t get a job in a flower shop as she wanted, and Hilda starts thinking of getting a job since Doug can’t work because of his back’s injury. Percy, Mabel’s older son, and Ellen work together in the garden. Because of Billy’s actions, Mabel become worried and thinks sending him back to Hampshire is the best solution. Mabel and Jack argue about sending Billy to Hampshire. Ellen starts crying because there might be a chance for Billy to move to Hampshire, Percy tries to console her, but he fails.

Billy moves to Hampshire. Ellen starts thinking about the fortune teller and what she told her back in Hampshire, she pays a visit to the church, but she’s not relieved. Hilda and Ellen both of them work now. Gertie comes to visit Hilda, Ellen, and is shocked when she sees Doug , apparently Gertie now has a new friend , Maureen.      

to be continued.......................