Their Search for Real Love

In fact we were known as being kind to animals as the people near the Convent invariably sent their dogs, cats and horses to the nuns whenever the animal was ill and there was no one else to treat it.”

There was something about him which, despite his colour, made him seem like a leader who one instinctively followed.”

My father once said, ‘I knew when I married your mother that her family would be horrified that she should have married someone from the East. Someone whose skin was not the same colour as hers. Although they admired the enormous fortune I made, they were always convinced in their minds that I was of less consequence to the world than they were’.”

Of course, that is what he wanted me to do,” she replied. “But I thought. even though they told me that he had died while you were with him, that he was explaining to you that knowing the English as well as he did, he knew that they would be shocked and horrified at you marrying a woman who was a half-caste.”

was then that Sir John realised that Gavron had been absolutely correct in saying that she looked like an English girl.
In fact it would be impossible for anyone to think otherwise.
Or to believe that she had dark blood in her veins.

Supposing,’ he asked himself, ‘she is as frivolous as some of the natives are? Although her father assured me that she looks just like her mother, I cannot help expecting that she will not only look like him but will nevertheless have many of the likes and dislikes of the dark-skinned races.’

At the same time the idea of marrying a woman whose blood was half-Oriental made him feel that he was suddenly facing a problem he had never, in his whole life, expected.

“I am sure that – the majority of Englishmen at that time thought anyone who was not white-skinned was not capable of being what they call ‘ladies and gentlemen’.”

Having travelled at an almost record speed, he told the coachman to be careful and give the horses a good rest before they returned to London and then to take them extra slowly.

There were always attractive women wishing to delay him when he wanted to be free.