CHRISTMAS ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHRISTMAS ROMANCE.

SURPRISE FOR YOUNG WOMAN. LOVER AS YULETIDE GIFT. A Christmas romance, in which a young man walked into the home of his fiancee after having disappeared from Southampton four years ago, was revealed on Christmas Day. Miss Lucy James, a 24-year-old shop assistant, was sitting down to her Christmas dinner with her family when they heard a knock on the street door. Miss James went to the door. Outside stood Mr. Francis Williamson, to whom she had ljeen engaged and who had left her home four years ago to go to his lodgings but had never arrived there. In an interview, Miss James stated that Mr. Williamson must have lost his memory, and for apparently no reason had wandered aimlessly through the streets of Southampton, and had then, as he thought, gone to sleep. After a while ho found himself in London, hut without knowledge of who he was or where he lived. All memory of his-past life seemed to have gone. " lie found a job in London, ?nd would still be there but for meclirg a friend who recognised him,'' said Miss James. " This friend asked him to come to Southampton. Mr. Williamson himself had no idea as to the identity of his friend, but agreed to come, and his friend look him round to what had been his previous haunts. " Gradually lie, led him to the street in which we live, and 011 Christmas Eve Mr. Williamson remembered me. Gradually his memory returned. The two men planned to surprise me, and you can take it from me it is the finest Christmas surprise 1 have had."