utureless Marriage

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The Baron and Lady Angela were invited to a wedding in Paris. The daughter of one of the Baron’s college friends was getting married and it was important that the Baron attend.

What made it so important was the fact that the bride had a rare blood illness and wasn’t expected to live more than six months. The bride looked radiant and there were no visible signs of the illness. When the time came, it would probably hit suddenly in her sleep.

The bride and groom were very much in love and they wanted to spend what little time remaining together. From Paris they would go to a villa that the family owned in Switzerland that was near a fine hospital.

The wedding was beautiful and the Baron and Lady Angela enjoyed the occasion. Only four people knew of the fatal illness and it was decided to keep it secret during the wedding.

It was the month of June and the perfect time to be in Paris. The city parks were blooming with dazzling, colorful displays of flowers. It was the time to visit Paris at its best.

The return home to Lilliland was relatively uneventful. Both the Baron and Lady Angela, however, made some plans to talk with their gardeners about some additions to the flower gardens.

The sadness of the bride’s limited future was very difficult to think or talk about.

Six months went by and a note arrived from the bride’s parents with some very happy news. It seemed that the blood condition that had been pronounced as fatal became arrested and the bride’s condition was improving.

Professor Hamblin, the Baron’s chief advisor, was asked how this was possible? One diagnosis was fatal and later the diagnosis changed and the patient was pronounced better.

The physicians that made the early diagnosis had no way of knowing the strong recuperative and regenerative powers of a very determined young lady still on her honeymoon.

History would record that the bride and groom lived past their fiftieth wedding anniversary.