But after I return from Europe” so that implies to me that she had not yet been to Luxembourg and intended to see Europe via the Orient Express? Yet she put on the Arrivals Card that she was a housewife living in Luxembourg. Maybe that is what he told her to write or someone else wrote it.
However, it appears that on this postcard, Marion was still hoping to go on the Orient Express and that is the way she had planned to see Europe. I decided to look up the route:
What is the traditional route for Orient Express?
The Orient Express has always run from Paris Gare de l'Est via Munich, Vienna & Budapest, whereas the Simplon Orient Express started running in April 1919, taking a Southerly route from Calais and Paris Gare de Lyon to Milan, Venice, Trieste, Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, with a portion for Athens.
So maybe they were going to meet up in England, he was already with Marion, or he had gone to Belgium on business and told her he would meet up with her later. Had RB promised Marion before they left that he would join her on the Orient Express? But Marion said in a later postcard that she had cancelled the idea of going on the Orient Express. Was that because RB had later told her that he could not longer join her so she didn't want to go alone?
But if RB was not with Marion in England, how did they meet up or communicate with each other if she did not have a set itinerary or a date and place to meet later? I doubt if both had mobile phones then. Did RB tell Marion to go to this travel agent friend of his in England (the same one JO was told to go to) who would know how to contact him? Then Marion could have been told that RB has had to go back to Australia urgently and that he would like her to buy a one way fare back to Australia and he would meet her at the airport. Or before Marion got to Heathrow airport, something happened to her and a female with dark hair used her airline ticket, got her passport and took the flight.
