So you’ve accepted a proposal of marriage because you didn’t understand the question.
You find yourself living in a miniscule cottage in a tiny village in France. It has no plumbing and no sanitation. You have to collect water from the stream and use the garden as …. Well, you get the idea.
It’s not long before you discover that the person you have ended up living with was, not so very long ago, a druggie with some pretty awful friends.
At first his family think you are saving him and do their best to accept you but things soon start to get tricky. He’s becoming obsessed with your sense of freedom and he wants it for himself.
After several months, your unconventional ways inspire him to make his move. He gives up his job selling agricultural machinery with his father and becomes a potter. His parents are horrified. Turning on you, they blame you for ruining their son’s life.
The trickiness turns into danger. You realise you’ve got to leave. But you dare not tell him in case he sends his erstwhile gang friends after you. Or maybe he will offer to drive you to the station and kill you both on the way.
You’ve gone from having no water at all to feeling you’re about to drown. There’s no one you can ask for help. You’re all at sea and there’s no land in sight.
What on earth are you going to do?
