Begins where chapter 2 left off -- with the marriage of Alice and Frédéric threatened by Josslyn.
Wow, Alice fell in love with Josslyn on first sight; when she arrived in Kenya with her husband in 1925; she was 25; they had been married three years; she had two small daughters
Patricia Bowles became her closest friend.
[Are there two Alices? Alice de Trafford, and Alice de Janzé?]
Alice: the only child of William Silverthorne of Chicago, a rich felt manufacturere of Scots descent, and through her mother she was an heiress to the Armour meat-packing fortune -- p. 39.
All the things Josslyn found irresistible: mysterious, married, and rich.
Alice: madness began in the 1920s; consumptive from birth; an alcoholic (possibly abused by her father); made a ward of her uncle. Black panther for a pet.
Then the story of how she met Comte de Janzé. -- p. 40.
Married, lived in Paris, but a succession of safaris to Kenya. Two daughters, eventually abandoned.
Page 41: Alice de Janzé begins a stormy romance with Raymond de Trafford.
The story of Alice shooting Raymond at Gare du Nord. Both recovered.
Serious, serious scandal. Finally, Alice "voted off the island."
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