Looking for short story or novel about forced marriage

December 22, 2012 4:51 PM

I am looking for the title of a nineteenth centry short story that goes: a man and a woman (acquainted but unconnected) inadvertently get lost or delayed together on an excursion and have to stay out overnight (sleeping separately). When they return, everyone is scandalised and propriety forces them to marry, which both resent, and blame each other for. But they fall passionately in love as soon as they are married. I thought this was by Guy de Maupassant, but I have searched all his stories and cannot find it.
posted by Bradfordian to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Response by poster: I actually saw it as a tv episode (in UK), that my memory says was one of a series based on Guy de Maupassant's stories or novels. So, probably French in origin - European, anyway, and nineteenth century.
posted by Bradfordian at 5:20 PM on December 22, 2012

Response by poster: Thankyou, Angharad. I did come across that site, but unfortunately it gives only a very few synopses of the episodes. The site depends on readers adding their own synopses.
posted by Bradfordian at 11:53 AM on December 23, 2012

Best answer: The closest I could come on a quick ctrl-f of "Marriage" was My Wife, but I'm not sure how much it fits what you're looking for.
posted by djgh at 1:44 PM on December 24, 2012

Response by poster: Thanks, djgh. The syopsis is pretty close to the one I had in mind. Guess it was heavily adapted for television.
posted by Bradfordian at 9:54 AM on January 14, 2013