" Alice is your daughters name... Right ?" Mrs. Ashland asks her friend while looking up at the picture on the mantle. " Yes Alexandra. She will turn sixteen in a month. You have a son named Alexander...right?" Mrs. Willows replies while pouring a cup of tea for them both. Alexandra accepts the cup and takes a small sip. " Yes Elizabeth. He will turn seventeen In two months. Does you darling daughter have a boyfriend?" " No she doesn't." "Does she know?" " that her father is going to make her marry alexander? No she doesn't even know who alex is." " I wish our husbands never made that deal." " we aren't going to tell them that the marriage is arranged lets wait to see if they fall in love on their own." "And if they don't?" " let's see what happens when they meet and go from there."
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