Forty is Beginning (Timeless Classics Collection) by Ursula Bloom & Mary Essex

Author:Ursula Bloom & Mary Essex [Bloom, Ursula & Essex, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: 1940s fiction, classic women's fiction, women's fiction classics, classic humour, classic romance fiction, classic literary fiction, literary fiction, women's literary fiction, women's fiction
Publisher: Wyndham Books
Published: 2020-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

Five

BEGINNING AGAIN

Probably, in spite of all these delightful castles in Spain, Miss Marvin had never thought that Colonel Hewlitt would really fall in with the idea.

The Colonel looked at her for a moment and said nothing. His mouth had gone very dry and he moistened it with his tongue, then he said, ‘Come into my study and let’s have a talk.’

They went into his study, which was very ‘pukka sahib’. It left no doubt as to the outposts of Empire where he had served in his Army career. Over the mantelpiece there was an imposing picture of the Taj Mahal. There were several polo sticks tucked away in one corner, and a lot of Benares work, photographs of the Ganges, and piles of joss sticks. The air was manly in the extreme, exuding cigar smoke and the scent of good wine, or should it be the bouquet of good wine? Already Miss Marvin was getting a trifle proficient, and ‘learning the language’ in other ways besides French.

She said, ‘I really do want to buy it, if I have enough money. Of course you would stay on as manager, because I know nothing about such things and should want someone to run it for me, but I should want to live here.’

‘Of course,’ he said, ‘that could easily be arranged.’

Just at first he had had an awful doubt that she was pulling his leg, but seeing her honest face he was now convinced that he really had heard aright. If she came into this business with that money of hers, it would completely save his bacon. The trouble was that he needed capital, and this was just what she could bring into the place. He had liked her from the first moment he had set eyes on her in the pavement cafe. Now he felt that he loved her.

He said, ‘I can’t tell you how delighted I’d be and what it would mean to me, but of course there is lots to be fixed up.’

She nodded eagerly. ‘Yes, of course.’

They talked together for a little while, and it seemed that the project would work quite easily. He would get a legal firm into it to draw up the deeds for her to sign. She needn’t worry, she had plenty of money, and if she liked this part of the world as much as she did, why not stay out here?

‘I do like it,’ she said.

‘I like you,’ he told her rather bluntly. She blushed at the remark, she was that young! ‘She really is a dear little thing,’ he thought.

When they had done, a pert maid escorted her to her suite where her luggage had preceded her. On the table lay the receipted bill from Madame.

The suite de luxe was very agreeable. It was entered by a small hall, painted in Adams green, both restful and soothing to the eye; this led into a sitting-room with a shady balcony overlooking the sea, and behind this lay her bedroom decorated in very soft pink.

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