A Tale of Two Choices by Bassoonist PG

Edmund turned white. "Did she give her name?" he croaked.

"No, she didn't" replied Brown, "but she did say that you would remember her and that I was to give you this." Brown took a monogrammed handkerchief from his pocket, with the initials CQH.

"Oh my God," gasped Edmund, "you say that she is 'with child'?"

"I'd say that she would be due to have a baby very shortly."

Edmund ran from the ballroom to the entrance to Loxley Manor, calling "Christina".