title: An English Lady in Paris: the diary of Frances Anne Crewe 1786
author:  Michael Allen 
description: Michael Allen was born in Middlesex, England in 1945. With a career of 38 years in libraries he achieved his first degree from The Open University in 1974 and a Master of Philosophy in 1981. He first joined The Dickens Fellowship in 1965 and edited a small magazine called "The Hillingdon Writer", 1968-70. He has written and lectured widely on Dickens and had his first book "Charles Dickens' Childhood" published in 1988. Contributions have been made to the "Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens" (1999) and "A Blackwell Companion to Dickens" (2007).
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  [Chapter Six](Silk_Is_For_Seduction_split_004.html#filepos3815)
  
  > Between the first week in April, and the last in November, Steam-Packets run
  > daily, weather permitting, from their Moorings off the Tower of London to
  > Calais, in about twelve hours; and likewise from Calais to London, in about
  > the same time. Carriages, horses, and luggage, conveyed by Steam-Packets,
  > are shipped and relanded free of expense.
  
  > Mariana Starke, Travels in Europe, 1833
  
  She stood completely still, but for the feathers and lace of her bonnet
  shuddering in the wind. Outwardly Clevedon was as still as she was, while his
  heart leapt with an excitement growing all too familiar.
  
  He strode toward her. “Surprise,” he said.
  
  Her eyes narrowed. They were deeply shadowed, and he doubted that was merely
  the moonlight’s effect. She was fatigued, and no wonder. He was amazed at the
  speed with which she’d quit Paris. She couldn’t have slept at all af