affair-the

Updated: October 26, 2025

"Love" was a word rarely mentioned in his circle except on death-beds, "I've been a married man for thirty years," he said hurriedly. "That won't do. It should have been a hopeless affair-the last sight of the lady on a spur of coast with water on three sides that kind of thing, you know, or it might have happened to an ancestor.... But you don't look the kind of breed for hopeless attachments.

John Buchan - Huntingtower