Half a Crown
“Maynard was sleepy, so she wasn’t at all reluctant to leave the ball. She looked down her nose at me as we got into the car, but I was used to that. When we got home, Nanny helped us undress, then Betsy and I talked half the night. What we decided was that I couldn’t keep on saying no without Sir Alan believing it, but that it had probably already gone far enough to stop him being able to propose to Betsy. She was delighted. I, on the other hand, was confused. I didn’t want to marry him for the... triumph of it, or even to be a lady, but I was thrilled he’d proposed, that I’d had the possibility of all of that. I would have fallen asleep in Betsy’s room, which I had plenty of times before, but she shooed me out because of her arm. Even in my own bed I slept badly. I kept waking out of complicated dreams in which one of us was getting married, or being crushed in the riot, and sometimes both at once, walking up the aisle and slipping and being trampled and “Here Comes the Bride”MoreLess
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