Life After Life Chapter 11

Armistice

12 November 1918

• Ursula wakes up with a "great dread" (11.2) washing over her.
• She has this feeling that no one should go downstairs to see Bridget, so she stays quietly in bed so that Pamela doesn't wake up either.
• Bridget is very ill, so Sylvie calls Dr. Fellowes.
• In the kitchen, Mrs. Glover is grinding calf tongue (for real—this isn't 19th-century slang for making out, we swear) when Fred Smith, the butcher's boy, shows up with a delivery.
• When he leaves, everyone notices they haven't seen Teddy in a while.
• Ursula finds him on Bridget's bed. Well, Bridget's deathbed, actually—she's blue and still.
• Teddy gets violently ill, bloody spit frothing from his nostrils, and quickly dies.
• Ursula, too, gets sick, and soon dies.
• As it does, "Darkness fell" (11.46).