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only to get away from home, I am sure, and have a place of
her own. I wonder mother could be so delighted to get her
married, considering the cat-and-dog life she herself has led
with my father. But there was no end of a fuss about the Rev.
Arnesen, when my sister got engaged to him. I can’t stand my
brother-in-law, neither can father, I believe, but mother!...
“My fiancee — I was engaged once, you know — her name
was Catherine, but she was always called Titti. I saw she
had that name put into the papers, too, when her marriage was
announced.
“It was a stupid thing altogether. It was three years ago.
She was giving some lessons in the school where I was
teaching. She was not a bit pretty, but she flirted with everybody,
and no woman had ever taken any notice of me — which you
can easily understand, when you think of me as I was here at
first. She always laughed at everything — she was only
nineteen. Heaven knows why she took to me.
“I was jealous, and it amused her. The more jealous she
made me, the more in love was I. I suppose it was less love
than male vanity, having a sweetheart very much in demand.
I was very young then. I wanted her to be exclusively taken
up with me — a very difficult proposition as I was then. I
have often wondered what she wanted me for.
“My people wanted our engagement to be kept secret,
because we were so young. Titti wanted it made public, and
when I reproached her for being too much interested in other
men, she said she could not spend all her time with me, as our
engagement was a secret.
“I took her home, but she could not get on with my mother.
They always quarrelled, and Titti simply hated her. I
suppose it would have made no difference to mother if I had been
engaged to somebody else; the fact that I was going to marry
was enough to put her against any woman. Well — Titti
broke it off.”
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