For hearing so much about Charley's family, we so rarely get to actually meet them. In this story we find that her supposed death has completely crippled the family, driven her father to lose almost all their money in vain hopes of finding her again. Even being 1930s aristocrats, it turns out her parents are truly lovely under the trappings of their society: her mother gave her strength, and her father is now as captivated by the adventures Charley used to be captivated by. Her older sister has married some American, and well, her younger sister is a Nazi. Charley pops back into their lives, and it gets a tad slow at points, but it's a reunion well worth having. The end where the Pollard's lives are so much better because they never even remember their middle daughter? One last gut punch for the road.