The Gamble
“We set the date for three days after we got the license, and I spent the intervening time getting Anna and Nanny ready to accompany us to Winterdale Park in Surrey after the marriage. They would be making their home there permanently, while after two weeks I would be returning to town with Philip.“I have business in London that I cannot neglect, and if we wish to avoid any further gossip, you had better come back with me,” he told me during the fifteen minutes that we spent together discussing ...our immediate future. “If people think that I have married you in a hurry and then dumped you in the country . . . well, you can imagine what they will say.”I was intensely curious about this mysterious “business” of his, but I didn’t feel as if I could ask him what it was. He kept his life so secret, was so guarded against trespassers, that I knew if I asked him about it, I would be snubbed.We were going to be married, and all I knew about him was that something terrible must have happened to him to cause him to become the guarded, wary man that he was.MoreLess
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