Leaves of a Book
A cold and wintry month was March, but it had its moments. On the eleventh, President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law, breaking the United States’ non-interventionist policy since the beginning of the war and provided Britain with much needed aircraft, food, land vehicles, and ships. The passage of the bill was a current topic of conversation throughout the village, as well as in the small cottage in Kent.
Leslie and Cyril put their initial differences aside and kept each other abreast of the war news. As March gave way to April, Caroline, though mainly of a breezy disposition, was tossed into immediate despair when Cyril, against Leslie’s warning, announced that her favorite author, Virginia Woolf, had committed suicide by filling her coat pockets with st
