Nuremberg in the fall, and then early winter, and then closer yet to holidays once so eagerly anticipated, proves an odd place.
Ida feels herself in a strange, head down, mouth thin, orders to be exacted sort of domesticity. Everything feels exact and measured and more than a little dreadful. She learns the streets, she finds the city market place, she finds the city market place is empty of provisions, she finds the army commissary instead, she answers the boys questions there about a woman behind the yolk, she sets up house, she learns Robert’s hours and that they begin immediately, she relearns her typist skills, she works at her law books, she tries to eat the food she has purchased, she tries to appreciate Nuremberg in the fall.