She had three possible candidates for a husband--childhood friends all,

apparently more than willing to accommodate her. She had only to choose one.
But her decision was hampered by the disturbing presence of Mark Fawcett
Miller. How dare he upset all her careful plans!High time she found herself a
husband!
aised in an orphanage, Sally!s need for a home and family had always been
uppermost in her mind. "ow she felt she should delay no longer.
"Perhaps," she said, in the same remote little tones, "
Not really. My district is four hundred miles from Blantyre. In any
case, my home is Redlands."
She allowed a few seconds to elapse before saying, "e!re being
awfully polite, aren!t we""
In a rather small #oice she said, "$ou!re still angry. It wasn!t my
fault the horrid mon%eys crowded round us."
"I!d told you before not to touch the babies. It!s dangerous to play
with the young of any type of animal if the parents are around & you
%now that. It!s typical of you that you did it on the edge of a
waterfall'"
(e shrugged non&committally. "Isn!t that the way you want it" )fter
all, here in the dar% middle of )frica you!re #ery much at my mercy,
and I!m not so easy to handle as *eorge. $ou made me #ery angry
yesterday, and I don!t thin% e#en you would be unwise enough to
repeat the performance so soon."
He has taken her to the station. She has money of her own and # don$t think she
will trouble us again. ick was %uite prepared, you see, to tell &ulio e'erything if
she refused to lea'e, and she lo'es &ulio. She wouldn$t want him to know that she
was ready to kill me for his sake.(Suddenly the eyes looking at )yn were abla*e
with happiness.