ABSTRACT
Most critical turning points are fortuitous and this was no exception. George’s sister Peggy was a student at the teacher training school at Kandy and was friendly with a colleague, Noeline Jansz. On one of her frequent visits to the house Noeline came with her sister Gladys Ruth Jansz and it was then that she became acquainted with George. The two fell in love with each other and were married in 1930, at St. Mary’s Church in Kurunegala for her family had left the Dutch Reformed Church and had converted to Roman Catholicism. George was not overly fond of Christianity but did not mind the Roman Catholic religion and agreed to get married there.
