"He was an excellent and admirable man," Peggy agrees, wishing that her heart didn't ache to think about him every time she mentioned Michael, because the war had started to take from her long before she'd even met and lost Steve.

Sometimes, she wonders how anyone in the world keeps going, with so much grief at their heels. "I think for me, there was a sense of closure before I arrived. Though, the wedding is the final chapter of that book, seeing as just before I got here, I was getting together with Daniel, and it's taken us several years now to get to this point."