Rethinking Love
Could she go back to Samuel after all this? She had experienced so much trauma, so much heartache, she feared she would never fully recover from the crash. She didn’t want to rush into a marriage she was no longer sure of, so she hid in the busy streets of New York City while she thought over her future. She would need to reconsider some key aspects...
Paying Up
In the meantime, Kate applied for relief from the American Red Cross. She was awarded $250 in financial compensation, which in modern money (adjusted for inflation) would be about $6,608.07. She wrote to her family in England and alerted them that she had, in fact, survived the terrible collision. She also warned them to ignore the media frenzy of the paper. But what would become of her love story?