 In 1935, he married the sculptor Christine Dixon ( Wood), his former sister-in-law.They suffered further tragedy when Christine's son, Lancelot Dixon, was killed in a flying accident on the day he received his RAF wings; he flew his aeroplane over his family's house, but the plane went out of control and crashed in flames right before the observers' eyes.By the 1940s, illness forced Sabatini to slow his prolific method of composition, though he did write several works during that time.