Non-Existent Lover

Thames remembers all oaths except ours. " In the summer of 1939, in a London cafe, two souls collided - Markett, postman, dropped out of Durham University, as free as the wind, as poor as a church mouse Marina, an Oxford-educated legal daughter, is elegant on the outside but has a fire in her heart. When they meet: He was listening to the couple quarreling, and she was tapping the coffee cup with a silver spoon. He talked about the history of the yellow land, and she talked about the loopholes in the legal provisions. He wears a postman's uniform like a disgraced knight, and she wears a men's wig to court But war came. As the German bombs fell, Marina wrote from her air-raid shelter: "Dear, if London falls, please burn my letters. " When sending the death notice, Markette thought: "This letter will never be delivered to her. "