- Maisie, Sir Claude, and Susan Ash cross the Channel together and arrive in Boulogne, France.
- Maisie asks Sir Claude whether they will be traveling on to Paris, but Sir Claude says not yet, explaining that Paris is too expensive.
- Maisie is disappointed at first, but then she realizes that she loves Boulogne because of all the new things there are to see and do.
- Sir Claude says that Mrs. Wix will soon be joining them.
- Poor Mrs. Wix arrives in the middle of a rainstorm, after a hard journey crossing the Channel.