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Her second novel is less successful, and her friend the playwright Jonathan Brockett, himself an invert, urges her to travel to Paris to improve her writing through a fuller experience of life.
There she makes her first, brief contact with urban invert culture, meeting the lesbian salon hostess Valérie Seymour.
During World War I she joins an ambulance unit, eventually serving at the front and earning the Croix de Guerre.
She falls in love with a younger fellow driver, Mary Llewellyn, who comes to live with her after the war ends.
Stephen believes Mary is becoming hardened and embittered and feels powerless to provide her with " a more complete and normal existence ".
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