Grace tried to keep her eyes from welling up with tears as she listened to Jillian's account of their tour and adventures. Apparently everything started out fine on the tour and she described how they traveled through London and enjoyed the typical sites like Buckingham Palace and viewing Big Ben, which it seemed that Alex enjoyed. Grace knew that Alex liked exploring different cultures and was also a history and architecture buff, so she believed Jillian's story so far.
After England they went off to Paris. They did several shows there and received rave reviews from the audience and local critics. Jillian even bragged, to Grace's dismay, about the starlit nights they enjoyed while strolling through the City of Light as well as excursions to the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles. When Jillian's friend exclaimed how romantic the French extension of their tour must have been, Grace started to become slightly ill since she started to feel the bile come up into her throat. All of a sudden the crisp, bubbly taste of the champagne started to turn sour in her mouth.