Chapter 40
In September I returned to the UK with nothing resolved. We had left it hanging. I hadn’t given an official answer as such, and David hadn’t pressed me. Nor had he brought out any rings. He had just been back to his normal self, almost as though it had never happened.
Before heading back to our respective universities, Milly and I met up for lunch at the Tivoli Wine Bar. I told her about the proposal. Milly was the only person I could tell. I wasn’t sure what my parents’ reaction would be, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted it to be.
Milly took a while to absorb it. "Maybe it shouldn’t be that unexpected. I mean he’s at a time of life when people tend to be married or get married, isn’t he?"
I supposed this was so. "I just don’t know what to do."
"So how did you leave it?" Mil
