Phobia

He realized that being the son of a deceased ambassador and that he had traveled the world with his father from one end to the other was not a sufficient reason to tie his fate and place his future in the hands of a woman from the other world. Perhaps his mother—a Sorbonne graduate fluent in five languages—was wise enough when she expressed her objection, which reached the point of outright rejection, to her only son marrying that captivating blonde. But he insisted on his action, and so he did !