A diplomat returns to learn that his god-daughter has become engaged. He meets the fiancé, takes him fishing, and tries to re-ignite an old romance with the god-daughter's mother.
This was written as one of a series of stories by different authors on the theme of engagements.
Woman's Own, 1974.
Included in the collection Comedies and Whimsies, ed. John Higgins, 2009.