How does Ethel’s first pregnancy foreground the power differences between men and women and between the aristocracy and the working class during this period?

Comment on the symbolism of Grigori being addressed as “excellency” and attending glamorous restaurants and the opera. Does Follett suggest the Bolshevik Revolution achieved its original objectives?

Maud ominously reflects that “the degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you” (929). In what ways does Follett suggest the Treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for World War II?