He also informs Lilly that he needs her to go with him to Egypt to look into some trade matters, on a trip lasting a few months, or hand in her resignation. Not only does he require her to go with him to break up a violent strike, he tries to reduce her wages. Ambrose seems to be trying even harder to scare Lilly away from his offices.

Ambrose has been trying to convince Lilly to quit because she is a woman working in a job that, at the time, was for men. Is this a result of the danger they are always finding themselves in, or is this because of her outburst for women’s rights, while dressed as his employee at a local feminist rally? He is also more determined than ever to convince Lilly to resign from her position as his secretary. Ambrose alive, Lilly is relieved, especially when it is clear that he is the same stone-faced, miserly, and brooding man that he has always been. RELATED: ADVANCED YA BOOK REVIEW STORM AND SILENCE Ambrose not in the lifeboat, Lilly is concerned that he has been lost at sea. Starting right where Storm and Silence ended, In the Eye of the Storm follows the further adventures of plucky heroine Lilly Linton. When the story starts, young feminist and secretary-extraordinaire Lillian (Lilly) Linton has just survived a shipwreck returning from France with her employer, the enigmatic, brooding, and wealthy Mr.

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