sentences:  He kept in touch with Julia, writing letters and meeting whenever he docked in Liverpool.Alf was later offered a job on a whaling ship for two years—which would have earned him enough money to buy a house—but turned it down on discovering that Julia's father had arranged it, in order to keep him away from Julia.On 3 December 1938, 11 years after they had first met, Julia married Alf after proposing to him.