An American Girl in London
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A political complication keeps your parents home, so you cross the Atlantic alone to a great-aunt in Half-Moon Street who has not been told to expect you. Seasick for three days, you surface to find Mrs. Torquilin adopting you and Mr. Charles Mafferton assigned as your walking companion — reserved, funny, careful never to discuss his own family until the day before you land. You choose a hotel over an unannounced arrival at your aunt's door, and through the rain glimpse a second cab that might have been his.
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