On the day after her arrival in San Francisco with Robert and Alexa, Margaret went for a walk. She felt confused and unwell -but there were no symptoms which would enable her, as a doctor, to diagnose her own case. No doubt the main cause of the turmoil in her mind was the strain of turning her back on all her well-loved friends and the familiar scenes of her past life. The future, uncharted, invited apprehension as well as excitement by its unpredictability. The only certainty was that the long journey by sea and railroad had left her under-exercised. She needed movement and fresh air. It would be a relief to experience the ordinary tiredness caused by physical exertion instead of the exhaustion brought on by the discomforts of travel. From the moment, twenty-four hours earlier, when the ferry left the railroad terminal at Oakland to carry them across the Bay, everything about their reception had come as a complete surprise to Margaret. How could she have anticipated that Alexa would be welcomed by crowds and cheered all the way to a hotel room filled with flowers from admirers who could only distantly know of her reputation?
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