HIS WAR ROMANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 February 1918, Page 5

HIS WAR ROMANCE.

A Taranaki soldier at the front records an interesting experience (says the New Plymouth Daily News). He was in hospital in England, where he was attended by a particularly charming nurse, to whom he became quite attached. He returned to France and from there he wrote to the nurse in taraus of endearment, following up later by a direct offer of marriage? He could not understand, for the nurse was ever courteous and considerate and had always, as he termed it, given him "a good hearing." A month or two passed, and then, one fine day he received a small tin box containing a piece of wedding cake, with a paper giving an account of the marriage of his inamorata. She was no other than a daughter of one England's prominent peers, and she had married a belted earl who held a high position in the Army. Th'e Taranaki boy understood, and now laughs over his little romance.