’I never said I -was a beauty,’ he laughed. ’I can’t think -what it is I see in you.’
But of course she knew perfectly well. He -was a gay,jolly little man, -who took nothing very solemnly, and he -was constantly laughing. He made her laugh too. He found life an amusing rather than a serious business, and he had a charming smile. When she -was -with him she felt happy and good tempered. And the deep affection -which she saw in those merry blue eyes of his touched her. It -was very satisfactory to be loved like that. Once, sitting on his knees, during their honeymoon she had taken his face in her hands and said to him:
’You’re an ugly, little fat man, Guy, but you’ve got charm. I can’t help loving you.’
A wave of emotion swept over her and her eyes filled with tears. She saw his face contorted for a moment -with the extremity of his feeling and his voice -was a little shaky when he answered.
’It’s a terrible thing for me to have married a woman -who’s mentally deficient,’ he said.
She chuckled. It -was the characteristic answer -which she would have liked him to make.
It was hard to realize that nine months ago she had never even heard of him. She had met him at a small place by the seaside -where she -was spending a month’s holiday with her mother. Doris was a secretary to a member of parliament, Guy was home on leave. ’They -were staying at the same hotel and he quickly told her all about himself. He -was born in Sembulu, -where his father had served for thirty years under the second Sultan, and on leaving school he had entered the same service. He -was devoted to the country.
’After all England’s a foreign land to me,’ he told her. ’My home’s Sembulu.’
And now it was her home too. He asked her to marry him at the end of the month’s holiday. She had known he was going to, and had decided to refuse him. She was her widowed mother’s only child and she could not go so far away from her, but when the moment came she did not quite know what happened to her, she was carried off her feet by an unexpected emotion, and she accepted him- They had been settled now for four months in the little outstation of which he was in charge. She was very happy-
She told him once that she had quite made up her mind to refuse him.
’I never said I -was a beauty,’ he laughed. ’I can’t think -what it is I see in you.’But of course she knew perfectly well. He -was a gay,jolly little man, -who took nothing very solemnly, and he -was constantly laughing. He made her laugh too. He found life an amusing rather than a serious business, and he had a charming smile. When she -was -with him she felt happy and good tempered. And the deep affection -which she saw in those merry blue eyes of his touched her. It -was very satisfactory to be loved like that. Once, sitting on his knees, during their honeymoon she had taken his face in her hands and said to him:’You’re an ugly, little fat man, Guy, but you’ve got charm. I can’t help loving you.’A wave of emotion swept over her and her eyes filled with tears. She saw his face contorted for a moment -with the extremity of his feeling and his voice -was a little shaky when he answered.’It’s a terrible thing for me to have married a woman -who’s mentally deficient,’ he said.She chuckled. It -was the characteristic answer -which she would have liked him to make.It was hard to realize that nine months ago she had never even heard of him. She had met him at a small place by the seaside -where she -was spending a month’s holiday with her mother. Doris was a secretary to a member of parliament, Guy was home on leave. ’They -were staying at the same hotel and he quickly told her all about himself. He -was born in Sembulu, -where his father had served for thirty years under the second Sultan, and on leaving school he had entered the same service. He -was devoted to the country.’After all England’s a foreign land to me,’ he told her. ’My home’s Sembulu.’And now it was her home too. He asked her to marry him at the end of the month’s holiday. She had known he was going to, and had decided to refuse him. She was her widowed mother’s only child and she could not go so far away from her, but when the moment came she did not quite know what happened to her, she was carried off her feet by an unexpected emotion, and she accepted him- They had been settled now for four months in the little outstation of which he was in charge. She was very happy-She told him once that she had quite made up her mind to refuse him.
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