C-02 February - Falling toward England

26th February - Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
February 1936, SS Hopetoun
Juniper takes ship for London.
In this chapter we meet British Fascists Auden Barnsley and Callista Sloane. Auden and Callista are second cousins and intermittent lovers. They are both short of cash - a combination of laziness, tight-fisted parents and profligate spending habits. They tend to squeak their way through life with charm and credit. They find the Fascist movement vaguely appealing, but it is more a hook to hang their boredom on than a serious commitment. They are lazy, greedy, venal, slightly grubby, but somehow appealing in their squalor - almost Withnail-like.
Unknown to Juniper, Callista is travelling on the same ship. They cross paths briefly at Southampton Docks, the first of a number of accidental crossings and coincidences joining Juniper, Alex, Auden and Callista in a quartet (implied reference to Four Quartets).
Auden meets Callista at the dock and travels with her back to her flat at the northern end of Earl's Court Road.