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Contents
ОглавлениеTitle Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
Reg’s hands were shaking so hard he couldn’t hold the…
PART ONE
Chapter One
It was one in the morning and first-class victualling steward…
Chapter Two
Lady Juliette Mason-Parker knelt on the bathroom floor, acid scorching…
Chapter Three
Annie McGeown sat on the edge of a bunk and…
Chapter Four
Reg lay awake mulling over what he’d seen on the…
Chapter Five
Next morning at breakfast, Reg couldn’t meet Mrs Grayling’s eye,…
Chapter Six
After breakfast Margaret Grayling found a deckchair on the promenade…
Chapter Seven
At luncheon, first-class passengers could choose from a set menu…
Chapter Eight
The stewards were free from the end of lunch service,…
Chapter Nine
By dinner time on Saturday evening, Juliette was restless in…
Chapter Ten
Most tables in the first-class dining saloon seated eight people.
Chapter Eleven
After breakfast on Sunday morning, Annie McGeown went with her…
Chapter Twelve
As passengers began arriving for breakfast on Sunday morning, Reg…
Chapter Thirteen
John was worried about Reg. He seemed distracted on this…
Chapter Fourteen
‘I hope there isn’t some kind of illness being passed…
Chapter Fifteen
The engines had stopped almost immediately, and the silence that…
Chapter Sixteen
Annie McGeown was lying in her bunk unable to get…
Chapter Seventeen
As Reg walked along B Deck, passengers were beginning to…
Chapter Eighteen
When she woke, for a few seconds Juliette couldn’t remember…
Chapter Nineteen
‘Annie? It’s Eileen.’ The words were accompanied by urgent knocking.
Chapter Twenty
Reg walked over to the port side of the boat…
Chapter Twenty-One
A surge of third-class passengers arrived on the boat deck,…
Chapter Twenty-Two
The water came faster than Reg had expected and he…
Chapter Twenty-Three
Annie sat huddled on a bench in Lifeboat 13, so…
Chapter Twenty-Four
As she watched the Titanic sliding beneath the water, Juliette’s…
Chapter Twenty-Five
Reg was shivering convulsively and if it hadn’t been for…
Chapter Twenty-Six
‘Was that a shooting star?’
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Throughout the night, Annie sat still and silent, her chest…
Chapter Twenty-Eight
In the doctor’s consulting room, Reg was stripped of his…
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Annie stood on deck watching until the last lifeboat had…
Chapter Thirty
Juliette found that she couldn’t stop crying. It was humiliating…
Chapter Thirty-One
Reg was badly shaken by his conversation with Annie. He…
Chapter Thirty-Two
The first-and second-class areas on the Carpathia were much smaller…
Chapter Thirty-Three
When Reg opened his eyes, he was momentarily confused to…
Chapter Thirty-Four
Mildred persuaded Annie to share her first-class suite, which had…
Chapter Thirty-Five
Reg returned to the doctor’s surgery to have the bloodied…
PART TWO
Chapter Thirty-Six
Reg was wakened by a man’s voice, an American. ‘If…
Chapter Thirty-Seven
On arrival at New York’s Pier 54, Robert Graham led…
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Reg poured his heart out in the letter to John’s…
Chapter Thirty-Nine
The apartment that Seamus had found for Annie and his…
Chapter Forty
When Juliette told her mother that Robert wanted to take…
Chapter Forty-One
On Sundays, when Reg wasn’t working, he explored the city…
Chapter Forty-Two
‘My goodness! What brings you here?’ Mr Grayling looked startled…
Chapter Forty-Three
A date was set for Juliette and her mother to…
Chapter Forty-Four
Annie found life in Kingsbridge a struggle. The practicalities were…
Chapter Forty-Five
The night following Mr Grayling’s offer of employment, Reg lay…
Chapter Forty-Six
‘It appears to be about two carats.’ Lady Mason-Parker eyed…
Chapter Forty-Seven
Reg was astonished but pleased when he saw a story…
Chapter Forty-Eight
The morning of her departure for Saratoga Springs, Juliette woke…
Chapter Forty-Nine
A couple of days after starting work for Mr Grayling,…
Chapter Fifty
Reg liked to keep busy and there wasn’t much to…
Chapter Fifty-One
Mr Frank came into the kitchen holding a newspaper. ‘Your…
Chapter Fifty-Two
A sign announced ‘Welcome to Saratoga Springs, district of Saratoga…
Chapter Fifty-Three
Reg had very mixed feelings about his flirtation with Molly.
Chapter Fifty-Four
Annie hadn’t realised how hot it would be in New…
Chapter Fifty-Five
Reg let everyone think the cut on his hand was…
Chapter Fifty-Six
‘This is John,’ Molly said, to fill the stunned silence…
Chapter Fifty-Seven
Mr Grayling was in his office. Mr Frank tapped on…
Chapter Fifty-Eight
In Saratoga Springs, the temperature shot up into the nineties…
Chapter Fifty-Nine
Mr Frank insisted that Mr Grayling’s chauffeur drove Reg downtown…
Chapter Sixty
Annie couldn’t stop thinking about the séance and analysing everything…
Chapter Sixty-One
Reg completed the letter to his mother – a simple…
Chapter Sixty-Two
Mr Grayling hadn’t been to the house since the previous…
Chapter Sixty-Three
The days when Juliette could wear a corset were long…
Chapter Sixty-Four
From the first day at the summer house, Molly started…
Chapter Sixty-Five
Father Kelly knocked on the door one morning and asked…
Chapter Sixty-Six
In early August, a storm blew up the Atlantic coast…
Chapter Sixty-Seven
Somewhere in the depths of his brain, Reg became aware…
Chapter Sixty-Eight
Juliette couldn’t stop torturing herself with visions of Robert escorting…
Chapter Sixty-Nine
When Reg awoke, it was daylight outside and the storm…
Chapter Seventy
Juliette scribbled a very simple note: ‘Am in New York…
Chapter Seventy-One
It was getting dark as Reg walked over Brooklyn Bridge.
Chapter Seventy-Two
As soon as Juliette woke the next day, she rang…
Chapter Seventy-Three
Juliette didn’t have time to be nervous as Robert dashed…
Chapter Seventy-Four
Reg didn’t know where to find a police station. In…
Chapter Seventy-Five
Reg had a lot of time to worry while the…
Chapter Seventy-Six
Later that night, George Grayling sat at his desk with…
Chapter Seventy-Seven
As arranged, Robert came to the hotel at six and…
Chapter Seventy-Eight
After the newspaper story about her appeared, Annie was alarmed…
Chapter Seventy-Nine
When Reg turned up at the Cunard Line office to…
Epilogue
Reg and Florence got married a week before Christmas 1912…
TITANIC
Acknowledgements
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