She had been in London when the news about Joe Jr. came through, working for the Red Cross in a club for American servicemen. She flew home to Hyannis Port on a military transport, because that was what you did in that family — you gathered. Her husband was in Belgium. On the twentieth of September, four weeks and change after the explosion over Suffolk, a telegram arrived at the Kennedy apartment in New York. Billy Cavendish had been shot by a sniper near the Belgian town of Heppen. He was twenty-six. They had been married four months and had lived together for about five weeks.