She would write to her friends in Paris and prepare them for Joan's coming.
Joan remembered Folk, the artist she had met at Flossie's party, who had promised to walk with her on the terrace at St.Germain, and tell her more about her mother.

She looked up his address on her return home, and wrote to him, giving him the name of the hotel in the Rue de Grenelle where Mrs.Denton had arranged that she should stay.

She found a note from him awaiting her when she arrived there.

He thought she would like to be quiet after her journey.

He would call round in the morning.