Protagonist Paul Christopher's mother, Lori is a Prussian baroness living with her parents on Rügen Island in the Baltic Sea. It is isolated from the economic and political troubles besetting Berlin in the 1920s. When she meets and marries the American writer Hubbard Christopher, Lori is eighteen, gloriously pretty with auburn hair, delicate limbs, and an unblemished and creamy face. Her large and heavily-lashed gray eyes are her most prominent feature. Lori makes clear that no male will ever make precautions on her behalf. When the Nazis come to power, Lori publicly offends the new Gestapo chief. She nearly drowns in August 1939, helping a Jew escape the country.
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