[Michael by E. F. Benson]@TWC D-Link bookMichael CHAPTER VIII 53/57
All Combers marry when they are twenty-five, don't they? Isn't there some girl you would like to be yours? But you must love her, you know, you must want her, you mustn't be able to do without her.
It won't do to marry just because you are twenty-five." It would no more have entered into Michael's head this morning to tell to his mother about Sylvia than to have discussed counterpoint with her. But then this morning he had not been really aware that he had a mother. But to tell her now was not unthinkable, but inevitable. "Yes, there is a girl whom I can't do without," he said. Lady Ashbridge's face lit up. "Ah, tell me about her--tell me about her," she said.
"You want her, you can't do without her; that is the right wife for you." Michael caught at his mother's hand as it stroked his sleeve. "But she is not sure that she can do with me," he said. Her face was not dimmed at this. "Oh, you may be sure she doesn't know her own mind," she said.
"Girls so often don't.
You must not be down-hearted about it.
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