“For you.”

She looked up at him with shining eyes. “I wouldn’t want you to, you know.”

“To go to the ends of the earth?”

She shook her head. “You’d have to take me with you.”

“Well, that goes without saying.”

“And Bernie.”

“Oh, of course.”

“And—” Oops.

“Iris?” Richard said carefully. “Is there something you wish to tell me?”

She gave him a sheepish smile. “We might need room for four on that journey.”

His face broke into a slow smile.

“I’m not positive,” she warned him. “But I think . . .” She paused. “Where is the end of the earth?”

He grinned. “Does it matter?”

She smiled back. She couldn’t help it. “I don’t suppose it does.”

He took her hand, kissed it, and then led her out into the hall. “It will never matter where we are,” he said softly, “just so long as we’re together.”

About the Author

JULIA QUINN started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since.

The New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four novels for Avon Books, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

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By Julia Quinn

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JUST LIKE HEAVEN • A NIGHT LIKE THIS

THE SUM OF ALL KISSES

THE SECRETS OF SIR RICHARD KENWORTHY

The Bridgerton Series

THE DUKE AND I • THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME

AN OFFER FROM A GENTLEMAN

ROMANCING MISTER BRIDGERTON

TO SIR PHILLIP, WITH LOVE

WHEN HE WAS WICKED • IT’S IN HIS KISS

ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING

THE BRIDGERTONS: HAPPILY EVER AFTER

The Bevelstoke Series

THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS MIRANDA CHEEVER

WHAT HAPPENS IN LONDON

TEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT YOU

The Two Dukes of Wyndham

THE LOST DUKE OF WYNDHAM

MR. CAVENDISH, I PRESUME

Agents of the Crown

TO CATCH AN HEIRESS • HOW TO MARRY A MARQUIS

The Lyndon Sisters

EVERYTHING AND THE MOON

BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN

The Splendid Trilogy

SPLENDID • DANCING AT MIDNIGHT • MINX

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