My wife and I left Bangkok on a small ship. Probably all on Board the ship were surprised our couple from the side, we looked absurd , but certainly touching, because I was a little man, well below the ave¬rage height, and my wife was was a large woman, tall and of a robust build . Today we had the anniversary of the day on which I first saw my wife and It is also the anniversary of the day on which she promised to be my wife. They were one and the same.
Ours was a marriage of convenience. It was an amazing story. I had been in the navy, and when I retired I was forty-nine. I was offered to take the post of Governor. But the next Governor must be a model of respectability, therefore, should be married. I was given a month to find a wife.
I decided to put an ad in the newspaper, but I received so many responses that I would not have time to meet with all the women. I am quite desperate. But my friend offered me his cousin, who lived in Geneva, was the right age and had no husband. She is well edu¬cated and she is not ugly.
That night I took the train to Geneva. We met and said just a quarter of an hour I asked her to marry me. At first she was shocked, then she waited a minute and said "Yes". We were married in a fortnight and I became Governor of a colony.