Married life was so dull that I got myself a canary to pass the time.
Who would have thought the news would reach my husband, the man I’d married for an alliance? From that day on, he started coming home more and more often.
He even… kept finding new ways to surprise me. Until one day, he asked, “When are you going to take me to meet that canary you’re keeping outside?”
“What is it about him that has you so fascinated?”
I froze. “You want to meet him?”
After he gave me a firm yes, I took him to meet the bird I’d been raising.
A Gloster Canary.