Mr. Weys told me this story himself.
He’d met his Thai wife in the SOAS Junior Common Room.
When he decided that he’d like to marry her, Mr. Weys, being old school, wrote to her father in Bangkok to ask for her hand in marriage.
He waited. No reply. He waited further. Still no reply.
Mrs. Weys, however, did receive a letter from her father, warning her to “watch out for these dodgy foreigners”.
For those unfamiliar with British English:
dodgy: (British, informal) dishonest, unreliable; potentially dangerous; of low quality
(London, early 1950s)
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