Midnight at the Electric

In a letter found by Adri, Lenore writes from England at the end of WWI. She expresses surprise that Beth is engaged, and she asks about Beth’s fiancé. Lenore’s family is still reeling from the recent death of her brother, Teddy, and Lenore feels trapped by everyone’s grief. She busies herself by taking walks, and she returned to the “Cave of the Cup,” a place where Beth told her the Holy Grail was hidden when they were children. She writes that on her way to the cave, she found a deteriorating stone house.

Lenore promises that she will be the same person—she won’t let the war or her brother’s death scar her—when she comes to New York to be with Beth one day. With her letter, she is sending Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Dubliners.

Lenore responds to Beth’s letter in which Beth says she is moving to Kansas. Lenore’s village, Forest Row, had a memorial parade, which she skipped. Lenore’s mother hosted a dinner on Sunday and picked a new boy that she wants Lenore to date. Sneaking away, Lenore returned to the abandoned stone house and cleaned it. She has gone back multiple times, bringing items to make it more comfortable and pretending that she is spending time with Beth in the house.