Sometimes by Rex Garland

Author:Rex Garland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novel, thriller, action, adventure, romance, boating world, sailing, boatyard, skulduggery, covert and illegal operations, British Intelligence Services, blackmail, murder, tragedy, morality, ethics, smuggling, south-west coast of England, Devon, Cornwall, Hampshire, West Sussex, heart-warming, gripping.
ISBN: 9780722343524
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2013-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Partnerships

By the first of June the new office structure, with wiring and decorating, was complete. Greg was officially on the QC payroll. In No.1 Shed the hull and deck sections of the fibreglass patrol boat had been mated up after installation of the engines, propulsion gear and fuel tanks. Half of the Curnow workforce of boatbuilders, shipwrights and fitters were employed full-time fitting out this one craft.

That weekend Mary brought with her the news for which Greg had been waiting: ‘Two weeks before the official opening of the office here I will have finished in Southampton, my love. The letting agents have found me a tenant. My personal stuff will be locked up in the second bedroom, and I will bring down my final bits and pieces over the next couple of weekends. How does that grab you?’

‘It grabs me more than you will ever know, my darling. Come and have a look.’ He guided her to the new office building. ‘It’s echoing a bit at the moment but the carpet will be fitted by the manufacture next week followed by delivery of the furniture and equipment from QC. You’ll have to tell me how to operate it all.’

‘What do you mean operate it all?’

‘Well, my beautiful fiancée, you’ve proved to me that you aren’t just a pretty face. I have lost touch with technology when it comes to office stuff. They keep talking to me about computers, word processors, printers, and mail-merging, and all sorts of stuff about which I haven’t a clue.’

‘Look, my treasure, I think you need a secretary more than you need a wife. Which is it to be?’ she teased him.

‘Both, please.’

That weekend they visited the garden centre and ordered rectangular wooden containers of miniature box-hedge plants to go outside the office and the caravan as Mary had suggested. She also studied the list of office equipment that was to be supplied and to Greg’s relief told him that it was similar to that which she had in her office in Southampton.

‘When you come down next time,’ Greg said to Mary, ‘I will have checked with the registry office in Totnes. We both have to attend in person to give notice. How about we go next Friday?’

‘You know why all this is going so well, don’t you?’ Mary said, and, without waiting for his answer, ‘It’s Daddy, I know it is.’

‘I think you are right, my love,’ he said, ‘but while you are on the subject of your father do you think that he would approve of us marrying in a registry office?’

She grimaced, ‘Of course he would, you silly old fool. He married people on board ships, all over the place, and anyway, don’t forget, we’re going to have our marriage blessed in the chapel of the College on the hill that he knew so well - he’d approve of that too. Oh, Greg, my darling, I just know we’re going to be so happy. I can’t wait until Friday. I’ll be down late on Thursday.

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