Lord of the Far Island
“Italy was the chosen place. Philip was delighted that I had never been and looked forward to showing me. Venice was to be our first call and there we should stay until we felt the urge to move on.I should have been excited and happy, and yet I couldn dismiss the feeling that I was on the edge of some disaster.It marriage, I thought. I not ready for it. I want to wait a while.But how could I say to Philip: et postpone our marriage. Let get to know each other He would burst into laughter and say ...that if we did not know each other by now we never would.It wasn exactly what I meant. We didn know each other because we scarcely knew anything of the world, either of us. If the genie of the lamp could rise before me and ask me what I wished I would have no hesitation in saying: Time.I was frightened by the speed with which the time was flying past. Two more weeks, ten more daysI wanted to stop time, to say: ait. I must think.I was not sleeping very well and would lie awake during the night and my problem would niggle away at me.MoreLess
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