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KATYA’S WOOING
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IT was in May, 1912, that Katya Kontorompa met cosmopolitan2 Guy Fallon, and decided3 to make him fall in love with her. She was staying at the Olympos Hotel, in Salonika, with her mother, and Fallon had a suite4 of rooms on the ground floor. He was tall, dark, and vivid; moreover, he was young; best of all, he was fabulously5 wealthy.
“A week next Thursday,” said Katya one afternoon to her mother, as they sat on the shaded balcony on the first floor, “Guy Fallon will propose to me. It will take place in the evening in one of those boats.”
She nodded towards a flotilla of little rowing-boats that stirred lazily to the rhythm of the lazy waves.
“Yes?” inquired her mother, who sat in a low chair looking benevolently6 at the world that God had made specially7 for her.
“And though I shall be a little timid at first,” continued Katya, “I shall say yes as soon as he has kissed me passionately8 on the mouth. But not until. I think he would kiss rather well, don’t you?”
“I think he would be thorough, dear.... But we musn’t talk like this. I never used even to think like it till you came home from Brussels.”
“Would you like Guy for a son-in-law, mamma?”
As a matter of fact, Mrs. Kontorompa was fascinated by Fallon almost as much as her daughter was, and it was with a wholly sensuous10 feeling that she closed her lids and said:{170}
“Yes, dear, I should—very much.”
“But the kind of kisses he would
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