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“I need a wife and you need a future. Will you marry me, Serena?”
About the Author
A Good Wife. Betty Neels
MILLS & BOON
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
MILLS & BOON
She said slowly, “Supposing I fell in love with someone? Suppose you fell in love with another woman?”
“I have had ample time to meet a girl I wished to marry—the risk is slight. And you?”
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‘It’s a shame,’ said Mrs Bowring, ‘for she’s great fun and so kind and gentle; she must long for pretty clothes and a chance to meet people of her own age. You’ve no idea what a job it is to get her here for drinks or dinner. Her wretched father manages to feel ill at the last minute, or he telephones just as we’re sitting down to dinner and demands her back home because he’s dying.’
They began to talk of other things then, and Serena wasn’t spoken of again. Two days later Mr van Doelen drove himself back to London and shortly after, back to Holland.
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