The immediate answer to And now? was to work through her list of White Rose contacts, write her piece, then set off for Lombardy. Among the ruins of Munich, her existence seemed to her ‘quite brilliant’. She was casting herself as an honorary member of the group. She would continue its work, help build the new Europe they had dreamed of. Even a modest contribution would count, like improving English cuisine, she wrote in skittish mood, ‘by describing the art of osso buco!’
