I went to bed thinking about Edith's Story, the follow up to Threshhold Girl at www.tighsolas.ca/page10.pdf.pdf and I dreamt about it at night, so that's a good sign.
I'll start with the Bell Advertisement, about the Telephone, showing the grey haired lady keeping in touch with her family. (Just like Margaret.)
Then I'll put in Edith's letter of May 3, where she thanks her Mom for the phone call... "Your voice sounded so natural."
And then I'll start the narrative at May 7, when the news of King Edward's death is all over the newspapers.
"The King is dead. Long Live the King"
Edith, in an opium haze, as Dr. Villard has given her some 'nerve tonic' will tell how she met a student on the stairs, a young boy, who said "the King is dead. His last word were "I have done my duty.".. which was the PR of the time. And being depressed and cynical, she will say, "I doubt that."
And the death of her beau, Mr. Gagne and the king will get all mushed up.. in this first chapter.
That will be the first chapter...opium haze Edith...her school described through this haze. Hmm.
Because, of course, the rest of the story will have the real Edith, all prim and proper and Presbyterian.
A few years ago, when I was researching the fire that killed her beau, which I found out to be the Rossmore Fire in Cornwall, I went to McGill and dug out the Star and found the newspaper was full of news of the King's Death and also had an insert about the horse show...
I will have Edith avoiding reading about the King, although normally she'd be eating it all up. Everyone else at the school will be reading about it, though - and talking about it - so it will be hard for her to avoid.
