Summer, 1938: Threat of War

Anxiety, panic, fear, tension threaten to destroy the individually perfect world Anais has created with love, humanity, giving. She gives up her houseboat, ending one dream, needing to find another; Henry leaves Paris; her father moves to Neuilly, near where she was born; her mother and brother are preparing for a return to America; Winter of Artifice is put on hold; she places the Diary in the vault; crowds gather at the banks to withdraw their savings; people run away; crowds await news in front of newspaper offices; the world is threatened.