He had married his old sweetheart shortly after returning to the States from Berlin.

"My poor old sweetheart, you'll be all right in a minute."

He got married on August 21, 1996 to his old sweetheart from high school.

Please remember me to your wife and to the four-year- old sweetheart, if she be not too engrossed with higher matters.

Now,' he said, as if speaking to a baby, 'that ain't going to work, you old sweetheart.

I shouldn't tell you, if you was by yourself; much less with your old sweetheart here.

"Tell him to come and drink tea with his old sweetheart tomorrow, at six o'clock."

Couldn't be anybody you knew, either, unless it was some old sweetheart from the home fires.

She then tries to marry René, who was an old sweetheart of hers before the war.