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Women and Children First II: The Aftermath of Disaster
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Many people have asked me to write a followup to my story
"Women and Children First". I hope this satisfies their request. One
has to first read the original story in order to figure out what has
happened so far.
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The lifeboat containing Mrs. Wilkerson and her three daughters,
Elizabeth, Anne, and Margaret, was picked up by the Carpathia and they
were safely rescued and returned home. They mourned the loss of
Henrietta, who had slipped from Anne's grasp in the confusion and panic
on board the Titanic, but time, as the clich? says, does eventually heal
most wounds and, slowly, the family life returned to its normal course.
The first daughter to leave home was Margaret. When she was 17, she met
a dashing Yale junior named Timothy. They were married a year later,
after he had graduated, and moved to New York, where Timothy landed a job
with J. P. Morgan's bank.
Margaret's twin sister, Anne, joined the Red Cross after war broke out in
Europe, and volunteered to go to France as a nurse. In one of the
hospitals, she met a severely-wounded British officer, a blond giant of a
man named Captain Bill Percy, whom she nursed slowly back to health.
Bill Percy had lost a leg while apparently doing something extremely
brave, for he was awarded a Victoria Cross (Britain's highest award for
military valor) while in the hospital by General Haig in person. The
ribbon was hung in a glass case over his bed, but he had it removed the
next day, saying that it just attracted flies. As the months passed and
Anne slowly nursed him back to health, the two fell in love and, one day,
Bill asked Anne to marry him - not without warning her that life with a
disabled war veteran was not likely to be an idyll and that he would
probably spend the rest of his life grousing about his wounds or, worse,
boring her and everyone else with his war stories. Anne, however, was
not worried and agreed. They were married quietly by the hospital
chaplain, since Bill was still unable to leave his bed.
Two days later a military courier brought Bill a large cream-colored
envelope which, he explained, was a letter of congratulations from his
Uncle George.
"Your uncle must be an important man, if he can send his letters by
courier," remarked Anne.
"Look," said Bill, "there is some family stuff I should really have told
you about before we were married, but I was afraid that you wouldn't have
me if you knew it."
With that he handed Anne the envelope, which, to her amazement, was not
addressed to Capt. Bill Percy but rather, in a very fancy script, to
Capt. The Honorable William Henry Taillefer Lord Percy, Earl of
Carrington, Duke of Sheffield, VC.
"That's quite a much of a muchness, isn't it," he smiled. "I really much
prefer just being plain Bill Percy, but when your ancestors landed with
William the Conqueror at Hastings, you do acquire a modicum of baggage
which, unfortunately, you are expected to tote until the next generation
takes over. My uncle, by the way, wishes us the best on our marriage and
hopes to see us soon," Bill went on, "he is rather busy most of the time,
being King and all, but from what I know of him he will always find time
for a pretty lady. In any case, I am being transferred to his personal
staff in London, so we shall be seeing him soon. We do own a townhouse
on Portman Square, but it is currently taken over by a flock of code-
breaking boffins whose feathers I think it is best not to ruffle, so I
suppose we will end up camping out in one of the spare bedrooms in
Buckingham Palace. I hope you don't mind awfully. The food there is
actually quite good." When he received no response, Bill looked up and
saw that Anne, now suddenly Duchess of Sheffield, had, in the best
aristocratic tradition, fainted dead away.
Anne's marriage left Elizabeth as the only remaining unmarried daughter.
Having lost her fianc? on the Titanic, she seemed to be in no hurry to
acquire another one. She enrolled at Vassar College and graduated with a
major in history, magna cum laude. Her mother died of a stroke the year
before her graduation and, with heavy heart, she returned to live alone
in the family home in Hartford.
Elizabeth had plenty of money, so she did not have to work to support
herself, however she decided that she must do something to ward off
boredom and ennui, and so started writing a book on the women of Hartford
during the Revolutionary War. This project took up her time quite fully
until, after two years, it was interrupted by a letter from, of all
people, Leonard, whom Elizabeth had presumed had died, along with the
others, on the Titanic.
Leonard's letter was long and began with a profuse apology. He began by
relating what happened to him on the night the ship sank, and how
Henrietta sacrificed herself so that he might live, by trading clothes
with him. He had, as she had told him to do, run to lifeboat #4, where
Elizabeth and her family were waiting, only to find that it had already
been lowered into the sea. With great difficulty, he managed to get into
another lifeboat and, after that too had been lowered into the water, the
enormity of what happened, and particularly Henrietta's self-sacrifice,
suddenly hit him, and he lost consciousness. When he came to, Leonard
had found himself in a bed in a psychiatric ward of New York's Bellevue
hospital, over six months later. According to the doctors, he had been
suffering from acute shock and had not spoken a word since he was
rescued, nor did he show any response to conversation with him. He just
allowed himself to be passively led from place to place. They were not
even sure who he was, and he was officially listed on their records just
as an "unknown Titanic survivor". Fortunately, Leonard's family had
several friends living in the New York area, and they were able, now, to
come to the hospital and positively identify him.
Leonard had been afraid to write to Elizabeth; since he wasn't sure she
would forgive him for allowing Henrietta to go to her death in his place.
Much as he still loved her, he felt he just couldn't face her again, at
least not at that time.
Both of Leonard's parents were dead, his mother, according to eyewitness
reports, refusing to leave her husband's side as the ship sank. Leonard,
too, had been declared presumably dead by the court handling his father's
estate, and it took considerable legal efforts to have that declaration
reversed. When he finally left the hospital, Leonard decided to leave
the management of the hotels he inherited to the company's general
manager, an old friend of his father, and to go off to study at Yale
after all, a year later than was originally planned. However, instead of
studying business or law, as his father had intended, Leonard decided to
major in psychology, so that he could understand what had happened to
him. In fact, he then continued on to graduate work in psychology, and
was now delving into the work of Freud, Jung, and other Europeans, while
trying to find a topic for his Ph.D. thesis.
The topic which particularly interested Leonard concerned a phenomenon
identified by a British doctor named Havelock Ellis, who had circulated,
but not yet published, his results. Dr. Ellis had studied men who had
been raised as women, or who chose to live as women. He called this
phenomenon "eonism", named after the 18-th century French diplomat and
spy, the Chevalier Charles-Genevi?ve-Louis-Auguste-Andr?-Timoth?e ?on de
Beaumont, who had been raised as a girl and who lived most of his life as
a woman. A few weeks prior to his letter, Leonard had met Margaret and
her husband at an event for Yale alumni, and Margaret had told him that
"Henrietta" had really been "Henry" and was, in fact, a perfect example
of eonism. This touched Leonard very deeply, since he owed his life to
Henrietta, and he decided to make her the major focal point of his
research. If at all possible, he would very much like to come to
Hartford to visit Elizabeth and talk to about her youngest sister and to
see the surroundings in which she grew up.
Elizabeth, needless to say, was stunned by the letter. Leonard had been
her first love after all, their engagement party had been scheduled for
the night following the one on which the Titanic sank, and she had always
assumed that he had died, along with all of the others. She was not sure
she could face him again. On the other hand, she also felt that she had
an obligation to Henrietta's memory to help in any research which would
help people like her sister in the future, and so she wrote to Leonard
that she would be happy to have him visit, at his convenience.
The reunion of Elizabeth and Leonard was very moving, and both of them
felt a resurgence of the affection they had known many years before. But
more moving still, to Leonard, was his acquaintance with Henrietta's
life. Elizabeth showed him the family photo album, full of pictures of a
beautiful young girl growing up. He spent hours in her room, which was
kept exactly as she left it, since her mother could never bring herself
to throw any of Henrietta's things out and Elizabeth had, somehow, never
gotten around to that either. It was the room of a typical teenage girl.
Here were her dresses hanging in the closet, there were her books (she
seemed to have a great love for Louisa May Alcott), some of which
contained flowers pressed between the pages. The dolls from her large
collection were everywhere. Leonard even found her diary, not well kept-
up but full of the anxieties and hopes of a teenage girl. She had begun
noticing boys, and had gushed about one boy whom she noticed in the park
and whom she really hoped had noticed her as well. She worried about
fashion, and what frocks would look like in the upcoming spring. She
even wrote about her dreams, about her hopes of marriage and even of
motherhood. Nobody could have guessed that the person who wrote this had
been born Henry and was due to return to being Henry after her return
from England. Leonard tried to imagine a baseball bat and glove in the
corner, pictures of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson on the wall, books by
Bret Harte and Rudyard Kipling on the bookshelf. It was a totally
impossible vision.
For days, Elizabeth told him stories about how the sisters lived and
played together, the games they played: jump-rope, jacks, and endless
doll parties. The stories they would make up and act out: Henrietta
always got to be the princess or the fairy child, because she was the
youngest and everyone acknowledged that she was the prettiest too. She
told him how they learned to sew and behave like proper ladies and how
they teased their governesses. As she told them, she felt she was
bringing Henrietta back to life.
They also talked, on a more abstract level, about the meaning of all
this. How can an eonist be one sort of being physically and another
mentally? Elizabeth said that God must have made a mistake, and put a
girl's soul into Henry's body. Leonard, who did not really believe in
the soul, tended more to believe that somehow Henrietta's subconscious
was somehow rejecting the physical facts and instead creating an
alternative persona to deal with a reality it found hard to cope with.
Elizabeth countered that, since the girls grew up in a rather isolated
environment, there was nothing for Henry to feel threatened by; Leonard
retorted that, on the contrary, because it was an all-female environment,
he had everything to feel threatened by.
Long and sometimes loud discussions ensued, which had the surprising
effect of bringing Elizabeth and Leonard closer together. With Henrietta
acting as a guardian angel, they fell in love again and, within a year,
decided to get married. Leonard would finish his degree and then they
would devote their combined efforts to studying and helping people like
Henrietta, and making sure that they be able to live good and productive
lives.
They had definite plans, but ... that is another story.
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