At the ball, the colonel tricks young Sir John Ashwood into dancing with Susan by leading him to believe she is his friend's Australian cousin, whom John has been asked to entertain. Walter Forsythe, an elderly boardinghouse resident, invites Susan to accompany him to a ball hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Waverly, and she eagerly accepts. Hiram detests everything English, especially the rainy weather, which quickly aggravates his lumbago and keeps him in his boardinghouse bed. Turns out there are two ways to get to Langdon Bay - an hour's walk from St Margaret's, or 20 minutes from the National Trust White Cliffs site just outside Dover, where there would also be a map.Īfter parking up and grabbing the map I set off.As she prepares for an influx of wounded soldiers at a London military hospital, American-born Red Cross volunteer Lady Susan Ashwood worries about her son John, who is fighting overseas, and fondly recalls her arrival in England many years before: In April 1914, Susan and her father, Hiram Porter Dunn, a small-town newspaper publisher from Rhode Island, arrive in London for a two-week vacation. 'The place with the shipwreck? And the zig-zag path? Sure, I know it.' Quickly I was being stared at by bemused locals probably wondering who this overgrown child was asking for directions to a place called Dead Man's Cove.Įventually a waitress said she'd fetch the manager who was a longstanding resident. I'd heard about the place recently and Google contained some information, but nothing on exactly how to get there.Īfter half an hour of scrolling, I decided instead to head to a nearby pub to see if anyone there knew anything. It was not the Wednesday afternoon stroll I was expecting. Looking back, the experience was something like an Indiana Jones movie but with a lot more panting than you ever hear on screen. Then drop to your knees and go through a tunnel.

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