"My mother thinks that I shouldn't marry you. Because of the age-difference", she said to Anthony.
"Please don't listen to her", he said. "Age is just a number. The important thing is that we love each other and belong together." And he looked into her deep blue eyes and kissed her passionately, longing for the day she would be truly his.
So they were married.
Ten years later she looked into his deep blue eyes while she told him that she had felt their baby kicking in her belly for the very first time.
She had had several early miscarriages before then, so they had almost given up hope of ever becoming parents. She was not young any longer.
She was so happy during her pregnancy. So was he.
Then came that awful night. That night their son was born and his wife died. And then finally, the next morning, their little boy died too.
Perhaps her mother had been right, he thought as he stood by the grave after the funeral. Maybe they should never have married, then she would still be alive. He felt so guilty when he heard her mother crying behind him. And he knew for certain he would never marry again.
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"My mother thinks that I shouldn't marry you. Because of the age-difference", she said to Anthony.
"Please don't listen to her", he said. "Age is just a number. The important thing is that we love each other and belong together." And he looked into her pale brown eyes and kissed her passionately, longing for the day she would be truly his.
So they were married.
Less than a year later she looked into his deep blue eyes while she told him that she had felt their baby kicking in her belly for the very first time.
She was so happy during her pregnancy. So was he, trying not to worry.
Then came that awful night. The night their child was on it's way to be born. He was in panic all night through, fearing that Edith would die too, like Maud had. But finally, the next morning, little Violet was born. And Edith was very happy, very tired and very healthy. Violet was very beautiful, very red-faced and very healthy. The first sight of his wife with their little girl in her arms was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen.
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Maud had been a widow when they were married and ten years older than him. Edith was a young woman in her twenties, a little more than twenty years younger than him. Both his marriages had been very happy. The second one was happier than ever now.
Age was truly just a number.
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A/N: I like Sir Anthony and Lady Edith together, but not because of the difference of their age. So I thought, why not turn the age-difference around and make Sir Anthony the young husband with the older wife?