Thank you, all of you, for the comments. I appreciate each and every one of them!
Ann, you said:
He told me that I shouldn't give up hope of finding my world's Lois... He told me that he doesn't like the word impossible... But this world's Lois is dead. Well, obviously, because that's why she is an angel. Does H.G. Wells know that this Lois is dead? And if so, does he still think it's not impossible for her and Clark to get together, have descendants and create Utopia?
I don't want to answer this point here and now because anything I say will spoil what is ahead. All I will say is that, when I wrote this part, I had in my mind that H G Wells is fallible. Quite frankly, he didn't know what he was talking about.
And, no, H G Wells is most certainly not responsible for Lois being assigned to Watch over Clark.
I'm about to post part three. I would not normally post parts this quickly, but I want to be done by Christmas. Mind you, the more I write, the more I think this isn't so much a Christmas story as a story that happens to be set around Christmas.
Chris (who hopes that she will be able to keep people guessing until the very end)