Nancie returns to Paris and visits Fairford in Gloucestershire

Nancie continued to take Mimi to her dancing and riding lessons. She visited friends, wrote letters and read books in her spare time. She went to the Scots Kirk in Paris where the Reverend Donald Caskie was Minister and hoped that perhaps, one day, he would be able to marry them there. Unfortunately Hitler scuppered that idea, as you will see.
One of my favourite stories of this time was how she was walking along one day in Paris and noticed a very elegant couple walking in front. They suddenly turned into their residence and Nancie realised that the legs she had been admiring belonged to the Duchess of Windsor who had been on the arm of her husband, the Duke of Windsor.
It was about this time that Nancie's Uncle, Jim Holmes, who lived at Ibert, in Killearn, died. He had been like a Father to her sister, Nell and his death hit the family hard. He was buried in Killearn on February 1st 1939.
 The Easter school holidays in England started in April and Jack came over to Paris to see his fiancee. Mr Smith and Mrs Bond took them both out to dinner and then to the Folies Bergeres! They may even have seen Josephine Baker on this occasion but Nancie does not put it in her diary. She just wrote, "Wonderful show!" They had a biography of Josephine Baker, later in their bookcase with some very risque photograph of Josephine dressed in banana skins and little else.
In June 1939 Nancie and Mimi again visited Fairford in Gloucestershire to see Jean's Aunt Henrietta Ferris, now aged eighty-four. Jack came down from Widnes to meet Nancie at Fairford. He left just before Mimi's Mother, Jean Ferris, arrived. A few days later Jean, Mimi and Nancie went to London.