AN ODD STORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 8 February 1917, Page 6

AN ODD STORY.

A London paper states that an odd story is going the rounds of the clubs concerning a prominent member of a war hospital organisation smitten -with the charms of a pretty Canadian nurse, his wife meanwhile having a more than motherly regard for a wounded New ; Zealand officer. The husband had ar- j ranged a little tete-a-tete with the , nurse at a certain West End restaur- , fZi. ■ cm entering came face to face with his wife who had promised to dine f with the officcn. Both were slightly om- j barn.nsed, but they found lame excuses, j and, arcopting their fate, sat down to a | table. Then the nurse came in, who, , seeing her admirer with another lady, j indigently retired. The officer stroll- | cd in shortly afterwards, and he also ! went out in a pet. The result is that everything is “-off,” and the couple ■ have relapsed into the monotony of mar- j ried life