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a year of war. No one knew what might lie ahead, or how much longer the war would last, but for now, for a precious handful of minutes, the war could be forgotten and their love celebrated.

Of course, Seb had to wait for Sam to return home in order to ask him that all-important question that every young man had to ask the father of the girl he loved, and of course, Sam, as a loving father, had to point out to him that Grace was young, that there was a war on, but as Jean had already said to him, how could they stand in the way of their happiness, when that happiness was all the more precious because there was war on? And so it was agreed that they could be engaged at Christmas.

The most special Christmas of her life, as Grace whispered to Seb in the jeweller’s shop not far away from Lewis’s when the salesman had discreetly disappeared to let them both admire the shiny sparkling diamond engagement ring they had chosen together.

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ePub edition September 2008 ISBN-9780007283736

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