Lorna was too young to marry, Paul Westbrook thought; yet she was all alone in the strange world of the South Sea Islands, and how was she to be looked after, if not by a husband? So he married her, meaning to maintain a distant relationship until she was more mature... and found that events and emotions were not so easy to foresee and control as he had supposed.
Lorna was too young to marry, Paul Westbrook thought; yet she was all alone in the strange world of the South Sea Islands, and how was she to be looked after, if not by a husband? So he married her, meaning to maintain a distant relationship until she was more mature... and found that events and emotions were not so easy to foresee and control as he had supposed.