“I won’t be stopping long in England.” “No?” “I’m setting things in order for my mother—property, finances, getting the right help for her—but I don’t plan to stay. This country wants to destroy us. It’s dangerous, worse than you know. I finally learned why no one had heard from me for so long. Early on, I’d written Teddy some cautious words about Mohammed, but not cautious enough. The army decided I was a pervert, so they started withholding my letters, even to my mother. “Before the war, before Mohammed, I might have endured England’s slow suffocation. No longer. I’ve changed. I’m leaving.
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