Slowly Lord Lynche crossed the room to her side.

“And you?” he asked. “Are you happy?”

“In a way I am sorry,” she answered. “I should have liked that little cottage somewhere on the estate. I wanted to look after you all by myself and to show you – ”

She stopped because his arms were around her and his lips were very close to hers.

“To show me what?” he asked in a low voice.

“Do you really want me to say it?” she enquired.

“I want it more than anything else in the world,” he replied. “I want you to say it until you make me believe it is true, until you convince me that I need not be afraid of losing you or I shall wake up and find that this is all a wonderful dream.”

She looked into his eyes and felt suddenly shy.

There was so much there that she had wanted to see and yet now she saw it, it made her tremulous and a little afraid not only of him but of her own feelings.

Unexpectedly he clasped her tightly to him.

“Say it!” he said half fiercely, but with an underlying tone of tenderness which seemed to make her heart turn over in her breast. “Say it.”

She felt the flames of ecstasy sweep over her and her happiness was almost too great to be borne.

Then, hardly above a whisper, because, as she spoke her lips touched his, she said,

“I love you. Oh, my darling Justin, I love you – so very very much – ”

His mouth was on hers smothering the last word.

The world stood still.

And everything else was forgotten.

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