The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre

Author:Elizabeth Andre
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: time travel, lesbian romance, time slip, lesbian science fiction, edwardian romance, lesbian sci fi, interracial lesbian, bwww, edwardian adventure
Publisher: Tulabella Ruby Press

Chapter Twelve

London, 11 September 1908, Friday

Dara took Agnes out to a Proms concert. Even before Ted had been murdered, she had it in mind to take Agnes to one of these classical music events as a treat. Dara had been beside herself with glee since reading about them in the paper. The Proms! In her own time, she had listened to several of the concerts on BBC Radio online. Something she and Jenny had wanted to do together was come to London during the Proms and go to as many of the concerts as they could afford. Now she was in London as close to the time when the promenade concerts first began in 1895 as she would ever be. She couldn’t leave 1908 without going to at least one of the concerts, and she was going to take Agnes with her.

She was still convinced she would get home somehow, although she was more optimistic about this on some days than others. She did know that she’d be kicking herself in 2014 if she didn’t take the once in a lifetime opportunity to go to the Proms in 1908. And she doubted very much that a Proms concert would turn into a minstrel show.

They went to Prom 24 at the Queen’s Hall on Langham Place in Westminster. Dara wasn’t especially impressed with the look of the venue. The decor was bland and plain in stark contrast to the ornate hardiness of most Edwardian architecture, and the seating was tight in order to cram as many people inside as possible. It seemed like many people who were sitting didn’t know quite where to put their legs. Fortunately, she had been able to afford the few shillings it cost for two balcony seats. The cheapest tickets would have only allowed them to stand throughout the concert in some kind of classical music mosh pit. She wondered, briefly, as they took their seats if they were taking the place of some other people who were meant to be there, as if being there would change history and the 2014 she knew and loved would fade away existing only in her memory. No, we’re here now, so we are the ones who are meant to be here, she thought. Once she heard the opening notes of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture she pushed her criticisms of the building aside and forgot any concerns about changing history. The decor and lack of spaciousness may not have been anything to write home about, but the hall’s acoustics were superb.

Surprising to Dara was that smoking was permitted in the Queen’s Hall as it seemed to be everywhere else she went in London. She still couldn’t get used to that. The tobacco triggered her cough every so often, but it mostly didn’t detract from her enjoyment of the music. It was just disappointing that she had to experience such lovely music amongst clouds of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. There wasn’t even any such thing as a non-smoking section anywhere, let alone non-smoking venues.

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